Join us in celebrating excellence in Punjabi literature
Saturday November 2, 2019
Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre, University of British Columbia
6163 University Boulevard
Vancouver BC
Doors open at 6:00, ceremony begins at 7:00 followed by a catered reception
Tickets at:
https://dhahanprize2019awardsceremony.eventbrite.com
Winner & Finalists:
See the winning books and stories here.
See a history of all Dhahan Prize winners here.
In 2014, the Dhahan Prize took flight, and in 2019 we return to recognize the achievements of Punjabi writers at our 6th annual event. For work in the Punjabi scripts of Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi, this prize recognizes one outstanding writer with a $25,000 award, as well as two finalists with awards of $10,000. Forging meaningful relationships with writers, community organizations and educational institutions in Pakistan, India and the diaspora, the Dhahan Prize is the world’s signature prize for Punjabi literary works.
We are excited to introduce our Keynote Speaker for the 2019 Awards Ceremony. Balli Kaur Jaswal is the author of four novels, including Singapore Literature Prize finalist Sugarbread, and the bestselling Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, which was a selection of Reese Witherspoon’s book club. Her debut novel Inheritance won the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelist award. A former writing fellow at the University of East Anglia, she teaches creative writing at Yale NUS College. Jaswal’s non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times, Cosmopolitan.com, Harper’s Bazaar India and Salon.com, among other publications. Her latest novel The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters was released internationally earlier this year.
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