Dilruba Ahmed's manuscript Dhaka Dust was awarded the 2010 Bakeless Literary Prize for Poetry. The Bakeless Prize, named for Middlebury College supporter Katharine Bakeless Nason, was established in order to support emerging writers. The manuscript, selected by Arthur Sze, will be published by Graywolf Press in 2011. An interview about her poems has appeared on The Collagist, while a press release on her forthcoming book will go live at the Bakeless Prize site.
Malaysian writer Shin-Li Kow won the Selangor Young Talents Award for "Night Shift Blues." The short story is from her fiction collection, Ripples, which was nominated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. The Selangor award is a government-initiated award established to appreciate young people in the field of arts and culture. It carries a RM3000 cash prize. (As of this writing, the Selangor Award for 2011 has opened. Deadline for nominations is November 10th. Visit www.gen-s.com.my for details.)
Indian writer, Thangjam Ibopishak, has been conferred the second Manipur State Award for Literature. The award was instituted by State Education Department in 2008 to acknowledge works of writers and poets. Thangjam Ibopishak Singh is among the leading and most popular poets of northeast India. Based in Imphal, he writes in Manipuri, the language of the indigenous Meitei community. He has published six volumes of poetry.
Malaysian writer Shin-Li Kow won the Selangor Young Talents Award for "Night Shift Blues." The short story is from her fiction collection, Ripples, which was nominated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. The Selangor award is a government-initiated award established to appreciate young people in the field of arts and culture. It carries a RM3000 cash prize. (As of this writing, the Selangor Award for 2011 has opened. Deadline for nominations is November 10th. Visit www.gen-s.com.my for details.)
Indian writer, Thangjam Ibopishak, has been conferred the second Manipur State Award for Literature. The award was instituted by State Education Department in 2008 to acknowledge works of writers and poets. Thangjam Ibopishak Singh is among the leading and most popular poets of northeast India. Based in Imphal, he writes in Manipuri, the language of the indigenous Meitei community. He has published six volumes of poetry.
