
New Delhi: Jamil Ahmad's The Wandering Falcon has won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2011. As the name suggests, the winner is always a first-time author, and what better start to a literary career than to win an award with your first book? Ahmad, a 78-year-old retired civil servant completed his manuscript of interconnected stories set on the border of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran back in 1974. But it...

06:29 PM, Nov 28, 2011

New Delhi: Amidst all the big ticket literary prizes on the Indian landscape, the one that still has the most hearts racing is the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize. After all, as the name suggests, the winner is always a first-time author, and what better start to a literary career than to win an award with your first book? The prize, set up in memory of the talented writer and...

06:40 PM, Sep 09, 2011

Her book
If It is Sweet is the winner of the 2009 Shakti Bhatt Prize. ...

05:07 PM, Dec 07, 2009

Her book
If It is Sweet is the winner of the 2009 Shakti Bhatt Prize. ...

05:07 PM, Dec 07, 2009