6月11日出版展望六十九岁的印度裔美国作家阿希尔·夏尔马(Akhil Sharma)近日以其小说《家庭生活》(Family Life)赢得了2016年度的国际都柏林文学奖。夏尔马乃新泽西拉特格斯大学的助理英文教授。而《家庭生活》已在去年3月获得过第二届对开奖,故事带有较强自传色彩,描写1970年代末,印度少年阿贾伊·米什拉一家从德里到美国,遭遇家庭悲剧后挣扎求生的经历。夏尔马三十岁动笔,耗去十三年光阴才完成此书。都柏林奖号称世界上为单本小说所设奖金最高的 June 11 PROSPECTS Akhil Sharma, a sixty-year-old Indian-American writer, recently won the 2016 International Dublin Prize for Literature with his novel Family Life. Sharma is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University in New Jersey. The “Family Life” won the second round of lottery in March last year. The story has a strong autobiographical character. When the Indian teenager Ajay Mishra came from Delhi to the United States in the late 1970s and suffered a family tragedy Struggling to survive. Sharma thirty-year-old pen, spent 13 years time to complete this book. The Dublin Prize claims to have the highest prize money in the world for a single novel