An Indian American novelist Akhil Sharma beat authors from around the world to win a prestigious British literary prize here created as a reaction to perceived weaknesses of the Man Booker prize.
The Delhi-born author's semi-autobiographical story 'Family Life',described as a classic American story of a poor boy becoming rich, was up against seven other novels for the 2015 Folio Prize.
"From a shortlist of which we are enormously proud, Akhil Sharma's lucid, compassionate, quietly funny account of one family's life across continents and cultures, emerged as our winner," said writer William Fiennes, chair of the judging panel said here last night...................
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