Awards: Midwest Booksellers Choice; DSC for South Asian Literature

The winners of the Midwest Booksellers Choice Awards, sponsored by the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association, are:

Fiction: Wintering by Peter Geye (Knopf)
Nonfiction: The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan (Norton)
Poetry: How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century by Louis V. Clark III (Wisconsin Historical Society Press)
YA and Middle Grade: The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill (Algonquin Young Readers)
Children's Picture Book: One North Star by Phyllis Root, illustrated by Beckie Prange and Betsy Bowen (University of Minnesota Press)

The winners will be celebrated on October 11 at the Heartland Fall Forum awards dinner.

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A longlist of 13 novels has been released for the $25,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, which aims to bring "South Asian writing to a larger global audience through rewarding and showcasing the achievements of the authors writing about this region." This year's longlist represents a mix of established writers and debut novelists from different backgrounds and areas, including seven authors from India, three from Pakistan, two from Sri Lanka and one American living in India. The shortlist will be announced September 27, and a winner named November 18 at a special award ceremony during the Dhaka Literary Festival. The 2017 longlisted titles are:

The Living by Anjali Joseph
The Parcel by Anosh Irani
The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam
Selection Day by Aravind Adiga
The Ceaseless Chatter of Demons by Ashok Ferrey
South Haven by Hirsh Sawhney
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
The Poison of Love by K.R. Meera, translated by Ministhy S.
The Party Worker by Omar Shahid Hamid
Pyre by Perumal Murugan, translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan
This Wide Night by Sarvat Hasin
Those Children by Shahbano Bilgrami
In the Jungles of the Night by Stephen Alter 

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