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2019
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Half the Night is Gone by Amitabha Bagchi

Shortlist
The Empty Room by Sadia Abbas
There’s Gunpowder in the Air by Manoranjan Byapari translated by Arunava Sinha
The City and the Sea by Raj Kamal Jha
99 Nights in Logar by Jamil Jan Kochai
​The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay

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The Runaways by Fatima Bhutto
Half Gods by Akil Kumarasamy
The Atlas of Reds and Blues by Devi S Laskar
A Lonely Harvest by Perumal Murugan translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan
Sugandhi alias Andal Devanayaki by TD Ramakrishnan translated by Priya K Nair
Mother India by Tova Reich
Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup
Tell Her Everything by Mirza Waheed
In the Time of the Others by Nadeem Zaman
2018
​Winner
No Presents Please by Jayant Kaikini translated by Tejaswini Niranjana

Shortlist
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Miss Laila Armed And Dangerous by Manu Joseph
State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee
Harilal & Sons by Sujit Saraf
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

Longlist
Leila by Prayaag Akbar
The Saga Of Satisar by Chandrakanta Chandrakanta translated by Ranjana Kaul
Chinatown Days by Rita Chowdhury translated by Rita Chowdhury
Night Of Happiness by Tabish Khair
Poonachi by Perumal Murugan translated by N Kalyan Raman
All The Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy
The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
Marriage Of A Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu
The Book of Chocolate Saints by Jeet Thayil
Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan
2016
Winner
Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy

Shortlist
She Will Build Him A City by Raj Kamal Jha
Hang Woman by KR Meera translated by J Devika
The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
Family Life by Akhil Sharma
The Book of Gold Leaves by Mirza Waheed

Longlist
The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne
Odysseus Abroad by Amit Chaudhuri
Don’t Let Him Know by Sandip Roy
A Little Dust on the Eyes by Minoli Salgado
The Way Things Were by Aatish Taseer
2015
Winner
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

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The Mirror of Beauty by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
Noontide Toll by Romesh Gunesekera
A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie
The Scatter Here is Too Great by Bilal Tanweer

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The Prisoner by Omar Shahid Hamid
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
The Gypsy Goddess by Meena Kandasamy
Mad Girl’s Love Song by Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Helium by Jaspreet Singh
2014
​Winner
Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer by Cyrus Mistry

Shortlist
Book of Destruction by Anand translated by Chetana Sachidanandan
The Blind Man’s Garden by Nadeem Aslam
Goat Days by Benyamin Benyamin translated by Joseph Koyippalli
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera

Longlist
On Sal Mal Lane by Ru Freeman
Scenes from Early Life by Philip Hensher
Foreign by Sonora Jha
The Illicit Happiness of Other People by Manu Joseph
Thinner Than Skin by Uzma Aslam Khan
Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar translated by Jerry Pinto
The Wildings by Nilanjana Roy
The Watch by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
The Hungry Ghosts by Shyam Selvadurai
2013
​Winner
Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil

Shortlist
The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad
The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam
River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Mohammed Hanif
The Walls of Delhi by Uday Prakash translated by Jason Grunebaum

Longlist
Leela's Book: A Novel by Alice Albinia
Between Clay and Dust by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya
The Flying Man by Roopa Farooki
Black Bread White Beer by Niven Govinden
So Good in Black by Sunetra Gupta
Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto
The Folded Earth by Anuradha Roy
The Song Seekers by Saswati Sengupta
The Empty Space by Geetanjali Shree translated by Nivedita Menon
2012
Winner
Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka

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Bharathipura by UR Ananthamurthy translated by Susheela Punitha
A Street in Srinagar by Chandrakanta Chandrakanta translated by Manisha Chaudhry
The Thing About Thugs by Tabish Khair
Monkey-man by Usha KR
The Story that Must Not Be Told by Kavery Nambisan

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Jimmy the Terrorist by Omair Ahmad
Day Scholar by Siddharth Chowdhury
Witness the Night by Kishwar Desai
Aftertaste by Namita Devidayal
One Amazing Thing by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Serious Men by Manu Joseph
The Last Kestrel by Jill McGivering
The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi
The Quarantine Papers by Kalpish Ratna
Buddha’s Orphan by Samrat Upadhyay
2011
Winner
Home Boy by HM Naqvi

Shortlist
The Story of a Widow by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
The Immortals by Amit Chaudhuri
Atlas of Unknowns by Tania James
The Immigrant by Manju Kapur
A Life Apart by Neel Mukherjee

Longlist
Way To Go by Upamanyu Chatterjee
Arzee the Dwarf by Chandrahas Choudhury
A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman
Neti Neti by Anjum Hassan
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
The Hour Past Midnight by Salma Salma translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom
The Middleman by Sankar Sankar translated by Arunava Sinha
The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi
Chef by Jaspreet Singh
The Temple Goers by Aatish Taseer