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PTI | 12:12 PM,Dec 25,2011The inaugural DSC literary prize in 2011 for South Asian The inaugural DSC literary prize in 2011 for South Asian writing, worth about Rs 25 lakh was bagged by Pakistani writer H M Naqvi 2011 for his novel "Home Boy". "Lit for Life", a literary event, was held in Chennai on October 29-30. The Rs 5 lakh literary prize was won this year by Rahul Bhattacharya for his fiction " The Sly Company of People who Care." The 2nd annual Goa Arts and Literary Festival from December 17-21 organised in collaboration with Sahitya Academy and Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) among others was held to celebrate Goa's Golden Jubilee. Maximum city Mumbai hosted the "Fully Booked" focused on writings from South Asia was held at the Mehboob Studios in Mumbai from December 2 to 4. Pakistani author Mohammed Hanif discussed his new book "Our Lady of Alice Bhatti" at the event. Also, the second edition of Literature Live! a four-day festival from November 3-6 was held at the National Centre for Performing Arts in Mumbai. The event saw participation from "World is Flat" author Thomas Friedman, recent Pulitzer Prize winner medical doctor Siddhartha Mukherjee and author poet Vikram Seth among others. There was a whiff of controversy too with the Harud Festival billed to be Kashmir's first literary festival failing to take off with the organisers postponing the event indefinitely claiming that the event has been "hijacked by those who hold extreme views in the name of free speech". Writers of Kashmiri origin like Basharat Peer, Mirza Waheed, journalist Najib Mubaraki, research scholar Insha Malik and filmmaker Sanjay Kak were among others who signed an "open letter" urging boycott of the festival. MORE PTI ANS VSS
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