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One of the founders of PalFest, Eleanor O’Keeffe, is to join the judging panel for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2013.
O’Keeffe, who also founded and runs cultural events company 5 x 15, joins Pakistani writer and critic Muneeza Shamsie; festival director of Kathmandu Literary Jatra Suvani Singh; and Rick Simonson, an adviser with the Gardner Center for Asian Art & Ideas.
Chair of judges is K Satchidanandan, Indian poet, critic, editor and translator. He said: “It gives me immense pleasure to have been invited to join an international jury of eminent writers and critics to choose a work of fiction that imaginatively recreates life in South Asia in its great diversity and vitality, its beauty and agony.
"I am particularly happy that the works under consideration include not only writing in English that is doubtlessly flourishing in Asia today but also translations from a variety of languages.”
A longlist will be announced on 16th October, with a shortlist unveiled on 20th November and the winner on 25th January.