The Hindu Literary Prize

The Hindu Literary Prize or The Hindu Best Fiction Award, established in 2010, is an Indian literary award sponsored by The Hindu Literary Review which is part of the newspaper The Hindu. It recognizes Indian works in English and English translation. The first year, 2010, the award was called The Hindu Best Fiction Award. Starting in 2018 a non-fiction category was included.

Winners and shortlist

Blue Ribbon () = winner.

2010

• Serious Men, Manu Joseph
• Eunuch Park, Palash Krishna Mehrotra
• The Pleasure Seekers, Tishani Doshi
• Venus Crossing, Kalpana Swaminathan
• Come, Before Evening Falls, Manjul Bajaj
• Saraswati Park, Anjali Joseph
• If I Could Tell You, Soumya Bhattacharya
• The Thing About Thugs, Tabish Khair
• The To-Let House, Daisy Hasan
• Way to Go, Upamanyu Chatterjee
• Neti, Neti, Anjum Hasan

2011

• The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya
• Bharathipura, translated work of U. R. Ananthamurthy, translated by Sushila Punitha
• The Fakir, translated work of Sunil Gangopadhyay, translated by Monabi Mitra
• River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
• Litanies of Dutch Battery, translated work of N. S. Madhavan, translated by Rajesh Raja Mohan
• The Folded Earth by Anuradha Roy
• The Storyteller of Marrakesh by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

2012

• Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto
• Narcopolis, Jeet Thayil
• The Extras, Kiran Nagarkar
• Difficult Pleasures, Anjum Hasan
• Bitter Wormwood, Easterine Kire

2013

• The Illicit Happiness of Other People, Manu Joseph
• Foreign, Sonora Jha
• Roll of Honour, Amandeep Sandhu
• Vanity Bagh, Anees Salim
• Another Man's Wife and Other Stories, Manjul Bajaj

2014

• The Competent Authority, Shovon Chowdhury
• Shadow Play, Shashi Deshpande
• A Bad Character, Deepti Kapur
• Idris, Keeper of the Light, Anita Nair
• The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
• The Book of Common Signs, Ashok Srinivasan

2015

• Flood of Fire, Amitav Ghosh
• Odysseus Abroad, Amit Chaudhuri
• Seahorse, Janice Pariat
• Sleeping on Jupiter, Anuradha Roy
• The Patna Manual of Style, Siddharth Chowdhury
• When the River Sleeps, Easterine Kire

2016

• Half of What I Say, Anil Menon
• Jinnah Often Came To Our House, Kiran Doshi
• Kalkutta, Kunal Basu
• ', Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
• The Island of Lost Girls, Manjula Padmanabhan

2017

2018

2019