In July of 2017, when the 13-title longlist for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2017 was announced at the Oxford Bookstore in New Delhi, it included Anosh Irani for his novel, The Parcel (Fourth Estate, HarperCollins, India). The prestigious 25,000 ($US) prize is named for its sponsor, the Delhi-based DSC Group infrastructure corporation. A shortlist of five or six books will be announced September 27 at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

The finalists were:

Anjali Joseph: The Living (Fourth Estate, HarperCollins, UK)
Anosh Irani: The Parcel (Fourth Estate, HarperCollins, India)
Anuk Arudpragasam: The Story of a Brief Marriage (Granta Books, UK)
Aravind Adiga: Selection Day (Fourth Estate, HarperCollins, India)
Ashok Ferrey: The Ceaseless Chatter of Demons (Penguin Books, Penguin Random House, India)
Hirsh Sawhney: South Haven (Akashic Books, USA)
Karan Mahajan: The Association of Small Bombs (Chatto & Windus, UK)
K.R. Meera: The Poison of Love (Translated by Ministhy S, Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House, India)
Omar Shahid Hamid: The Party Worker (Pan Macmillan, India)
Perumal Murugan: Pyre (Translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan, Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House, India)
Sarvat Hasin: This Wide Night (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House, India
Shahbano Bilgrami: Those Children (HarperCollins, India)
Stephen Alter: In the Jungles of the Night (Aleph Book Company, India)