Mirza Waheed wins The Hindu Prize 2019 for 'Tell Her Everything'

JAMMU, March 26 -- The winners of The Hindu Prize 2019 Fiction and Non-Fiction are Mirza Waheed (Tell Her Everything) and Santanu Das (India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images and Songs), The Hindu reported. The winners for both categories were selected by an eminent panel of judges, it said.

"An extraordinary work of fiction whose complexity, depth and narrative mastery would be hard to match in contemporary world literature," reads the citation for Waheed's Tell Her Everything, describing it as "a compelling novel, both a narrative tour de force and an exploration of a profound existential and moral conundrum."

The jury members for fiction were diplomat and author Navtej Sarna, author and columnist Nilanjana Roy, aut...