Omair Ahmad: Jimmy the Terrorist (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin India) U.R. Ananthamurthy: Bharathipura (Oxford University Press, India, Translated by Susheela Punitha) Chandrakanta: A Street in Srinagar (Zubaan Books, India, Translated by Manisha Chaudhry) Siddharth Chowdhury: Day Scholar (Picador/Pan Macmillan, India) Kishwar Desai: Witness the Night (HarperCollins/HarperCollins-India) Namita Devidayal: Aftertaste (Random House, India) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: One Amazing Thing (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin India) Manu Joseph: Serious Men (Fourth Estate/HarperCollins, India) Usha K.R: Monkey-man (Penguin/Penguin India) Shehan Karunatilaka: Chinaman (Random House, India) Tabish Khair: The Thing About Thugs (Fourth Estate/HarperCollins-India) Jill McGivering: The Last Kestrel (Blue Door/HarperCollins-UK) Kavery Nambisan: The Story that Must Not Be Told (Viking/Penguin India) Atiq Rahimi: The Patience Stone (Chatto & Windus/Random House-UK, Translated by Polly McLean) Kalpish Ratna: The Quarantine Papers (HarperCollins-India) Samrat Upadhyay: Buddha’s Orphan (Rupa Publications, India)