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Author | Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar |
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Language | English |
Genre | Literary fiction |
Publisher | Aleph Book Company, New Delhi, India |
Publication date | 2014 |
Publication place | India |
Media type | Print ( paperback), E-book |
ISBN | 9789382277323 |
Followed by | The Adivasi Will Not Dance: Stories (2015) |
The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey is a novel by Indian author Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar. Published in the year 2014, this was his first book. For this novel, Shekhar won the 2015 Yuva Puraskar, [1] [2] was shortlisted for the 2014 Crossword Book Award [3] and the 2014 Hindu Literary Prize, [4] longlisted for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award, [5] and jointly won the 2015 Muse India Young Writer Award. [6] As of December 2019, this book has been translated into Tamil and Bengali. [7] The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey was named by The Hindu in December 2019 as one of the ten best fiction books of the decade. [8]
![]() First edition | |
Author | Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar |
---|---|
Language | English |
Genre | Literary fiction |
Publisher | Aleph Book Company, New Delhi, India |
Publication date | 2014 |
Publication place | India |
Media type | Print ( paperback), E-book |
ISBN | 9789382277323 |
Followed by | The Adivasi Will Not Dance: Stories (2015) |
The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey is a novel by Indian author Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar. Published in the year 2014, this was his first book. For this novel, Shekhar won the 2015 Yuva Puraskar, [1] [2] was shortlisted for the 2014 Crossword Book Award [3] and the 2014 Hindu Literary Prize, [4] longlisted for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award, [5] and jointly won the 2015 Muse India Young Writer Award. [6] As of December 2019, this book has been translated into Tamil and Bengali. [7] The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey was named by The Hindu in December 2019 as one of the ten best fiction books of the decade. [8]