Rohan Chhetri's translation from the Nepali of Parijat's Flowers of the Siris Tree has won the 2026 Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation, which "aims to cultivate a new generation of literary translators working with South Asian languages."
This year, the prize's theme was retranslations of works published after 1930, with the goal of bringing fresh life to modern classics from the South Asian canon. Excerpts of all five shortlisted works will be published by Words Without Borders. The winning book will be published by Open Letter Books in 2028.