Dhahan International Punjabi Literature Prize

       This one is still in the preparation stages, but they've announced the Dhahan International Punjabi Literature Prize, a C$25,000 prize for Punjabi literature.
       I like the triple-hit of variations on their not being quite ready at the official site:

• Information for call for submissions coming soon
• Our website is currently being written
• Our brochure will be available for download shortly

       But they've put out some press releases -- complete with the appealing (if perhaps overly optimistic) catch-phrase: "Punjabi literature speaks in a language we can all understand; this Prize will give us a chance to hear it" -- and in The News (Pakistan) Shahab Ansari has now written about The idea behind $25,000 Punjabi literature prize.
       Given that Punjabi is the language that -- according to Wikipedia -- has the tenth largest population of native speakers of all world languages one would expect that there's some wrtiting of interest going on in it, and maybe such a prize will help get it more international attention, too.