Zero Degree is a 1998 postmodern, transgressive, lipogrammatic novel by Tamil author Charu Nivedita, who is based in India. It was later translated into Malayalam and English.
Year | Awards and accolades | Remarks |
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2013 | Jan Michalski Prize [1] [2] | Longlisted for the 2013 edition |
2013 | 50 Writers, 50 Books - The Best of Indian Fiction | Book published by HarperCollins [3] [4] |
2014 | important novel in the Metafiction genre [5] | Considered by The Sunday Guardian |
2017 | Fifteen lesser known but incredible Indian novels. [6] | Selected in by Mensxp.com |
Keeping with the numerological theme of Zero Degree, the only numbers expressed in either words or symbols are numerologically equivalent to nine (with the exception of two chapters). This Oulipian ban includes the very common word one (only in Tamil edition).