Chowringhee: Mani Sankar Mukherjee

Bengali novelist Mani Sankar Mukherjee's book, Chowringhee, was in April 2010 shortlisted for one of the Independent Foreign Fiction prize for 2010, nearly 50 years after it was first written in 1962. This is the first time that an Indian work has accomplished the feat. Chowringhee, is about a myriad of characters who stay at a popular hotel, Shahjahan, in the city's Champs-Elysees of the times, as seen from the eyes of a clerk who works there. The result of the $10000 prize to be divided equally between the author and the translator would be announced on 13 May 2010.

The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize is awarded by The Independent and supported by the Arts Council England and Champagne Taittinger. It is one of the most esteemed prizes for translated fiction in Britain.