The well-known writer of India, Arundhati Roy and Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid have managed to make the final list of five authors nominated for the Fiction Class of the National Book Critics Circle Award -2017.
Roy was nominated for his popular book ‘The Ministry of Adm Happiness’ while Hamid was nominated for the book ‘Exit West’. Hamid’s book is on issues of immigration and refugee crisis. Both books were published by Penguin Random House India last year. Apart from Roy and Hamid, the writers who make the place in the last five include Alice McDermott’s ‘The Ninth Or’, Joan Silbers ‘Impulse’ and Jasmine Ward’s ‘Sing, Unbrid, Sing’. In the field of literature, the National Book Crete Circle Award is considered to be very prestigious. This award is given by a jury of over 1,000 critics and book review editors.
