Kamila Shamsie and Mohsin Hamid shortlisted for the Dublin Lit Award

Kamila Shamsie and Mohsin Hamid have been shortlisted for the Dublin Lit Award, shared the previous creator on her Instagram page.

The Dublin Lit Award has regarded the two authors' most recent works, that is, Shamsie's Home Fire and Hamid's Exit West. 

Home Fire is a modify of Greek fantasy Antigone that rethinks Sophocles' play in a contemporary setting. It has recently gotten a few other artistic distinctions, including the London Hellenic Prize 2017 and Women's Prize for Fiction 2018. It was additionally longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017. 

Leave West is an anecdote about an exile couple's endeavored voyage to security. It won the Aspen Words Literary Prize 2018 in April a year ago. It was additionally shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 and assigned for LA Times Book Prize. Fun actuality: Obama recorded the novel as one of his most loved peruses of 2017! 

The two books were additionally shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. 

The Dublin Lit Award is introduced every year for a novel written in English or converted into English. The Award is supported by Dublin City Council, the city administration of Dublin, and directed by Dublin City Public Libraries. The Award expects to advance greatness in world writing. Designations are put together by library frameworks in significant urban areas all through the world. 

The prize is €100,000 which is granted to the writer if the book is written in English. On the off chance that the triumphant book is in English interpretation, the writer gets €75,000 and the interpreter, €25,000. The champ likewise gets a trophy given by Dublin City Council. 

Shamsie and Hamid have been assigned close by eight different creators from around the globe, including France's Mathias Énard (for Compass), Northern Ireland's Bernard MacLaverty (for Midwinter Break), Ireland's Sally Rooney (for Conversations with Friends), USA's Emily Fridlund (for History of Wolves), Emily Ruskovich's Idaho and George Saunders (for Lincoln in the Bardo) and UK's Jon McGregor (for Reservoir 13 and Rachel Seiffert (for A Boy in Winter).