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Raghu Karnad, Delhi-based journalist and author, was announced as one of eight winners of the Windham-Campbell Prize at Yale University this year in London. This award, which is one of the most lucrative literary awards in the world, is open to English-speaking writers from around the world. Each laureate receives $ 165,000 from the United States to support their writings.
Karnad was named winner of the award for his first book, Farthest Field: An Indian History of the Second World War published in 2015. Pan across Singapore, Eritrea, Libya, El Alamein, Basra, Arakan and Imphal, The farthest field tells the story of three men from the same family who served in the Indian army during the Second World War. Calling it "an epic of forgetfulness," the prize hailed Karnad's writings for combining the search for forensic archives with "an imaginative fire and troubling national and colonial histories."
Karnad said, "I'm still a little stunned. But it is a thrill that this obscure and unknown chapter of history, which deserves so much attention, has attracted the attention of this impressive establishment and this jury.
Established in 2013 after writer Donald Windham left his field at Yale University, the Windham-Campbell Award does not have a bid process and is judged anonymously. The winners are informed by a phone call from the prize director. The literary prize aims to "draw attention to literary achievements" and to enable writers to "focus on their work regardless of any financial concerns".
The American writer Rebecca Solnit has been named the other winner in this year's non-fiction category. The winners in fiction are Irish New, write Danielle McLaughlin and Canadian novelist David Chariandy. Ghanaian poets Kwame Dawes and Ishion Hutchinson of Jamaica won the award for poetry and Australian playwrights Patricia Cornelius and American-Korean Young Jean Lee won the drama category. and Geoff Dyer
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