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Indra Sinha shortlisted for Man Booker Prize

London: Indian novelist Indra Sinha is among the six authors shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Britain’s most prestigious award for fiction.

Sinha has been selected for his novel Animal’s People which is based on the Bhopal chemical disaster.

The novel by Sinha, who set up a clinic in 1996 to help survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, is a fictionalised story of a victim of the industrial disaster.

Other writers in the contest for the prestigious £ 50,000 literary award are Ian McEwan (On Chesil Beach), Lloyd Jones (Mister Pip) and Nicola Barker (Darkmans), Anne Enright (The Gathering) and Mohsin Hamid (The Reluctant Fundamentalist). The winner will be named on October 16.

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