New Delhi: Six writers of Indian origin figure in the shortlist for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2016. The shortlist was announced at the renowned London School of Economics and Political Science on Thursday.

The shortlisted writers include Akhil Sharma (Family Life, Faber & Faber, UK), Anuradha Roy (Sleeping on Jupiter, Hachette, India), KR Meera (Hang Woman, Penguin, India), Mirza Waheed (The Book of Gold Leaves, Viking/Penguin, India), Neel Mukherjee (The Lives of Others, Vintage/ Penguin, UK) and Raj Kamal Jha (She Will Build Him a City, Bloomsbury, India).