Book Award
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2022 Kirkus Prize: 18 fiction, nonfiction, young readers’ books compete for $50,000 cash prize
The winner be announced on October 27.
Scroll Staff
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Mohamed Mbougar Sarr winning the oldest French literary prize is a landmark for African literature
The author of the 2021 Prix Goncourt-winning novel ‘The Most Secret Memory of Men’ is a young Senegalese writer who had moved to Paris to continue his studies.
Caroline D Laurent, The Conversation
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Why the Women’s Prize for Fiction is still relevant and necessary
The award is one way of ensuring that women’s stories are among those that are told and re-told.
Stacy Gillis, The Conversation
Trending
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Why are Sikhs abroad more pro-Khalistan than community members living in India?
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The dark side of wind energy along Gujarat’s coast
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Kalakshetra abuse controversy should force a rethink of power hierarchies in ‘classical’ dance world
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Is ‘glass skin’ achievable? A dermatologist answers this and other skincare questions in a new book
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Fiction: The odyssey of an impoverished man at odds with India’s newly-independent status
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Indian author Prajwal Parajuly’s novel shortlisted for France’s Emile Guimet Prize
The book has become a finalist under its French title ‘Fuir et Revenir’.
Scroll Staff
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Writers Prajwal Parajuly, Manu Joseph longlisted for France’s Emile Guimet Prize 2020
The prize is awarded every year to a book by an Asian author translated into French.
Scroll Staff
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Indian author Kritika Pandey declared overall winner of 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
She won the prize for her short story ‘The Great Indian Tee and Snakes’.
Scroll Staff
Video
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Watch: Journalist Nishant Shekhar hilariously mimics everyday conversations in Indian newsroom
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Watch: Fire spreads through hotel in Indore, rescuers evacuate trapped guests with ladders
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Watch: Trapped miners rescued from collapsed gold mine in Congo as onlookers cheer in relief
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Watch: Israeli commando units stage undersea protest against government’s judicial overhaul plans
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Watch: Rescuer scales 65-foot telecom tower in Pune to save bird tangled in kite string
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Raghuram Rajan’s ‘The Third Pillar’ on FT and McKinsey & Company’s shortlist for business book award
The award recognises and honours the books that provide the ‘most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues’.
Scroll Staff
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Playwright and journalist Annie Zaidi wins Nine Dots Prize worth $100,000 for her essay
Zaidi’s book based on her essay titled ‘Bread, Cement, Cactus’ will be published by Cambridge University Press in May 2020.
Scroll Staff
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Tulika Publishers wins International Excellence Award at London Book Fair
Meanwhile, The Konyaks: Last of the Tattooed Headhunters, a book by Phejin Konyak, won the Silver Award in the photo books category.
Scroll Staff
The Reel
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‘Elemental’ trailer: Fire teams up with water in animated film about elements of nature
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Netflix India’s latest mantra: ‘You can’t be successful globally without being successful locally’
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Start the week with a film: The very violent and very clever ‘Battle Royale’
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Review: ‘Boston Strangler’ looks for the woman in the serial killer story
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‘Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga’ review: A smart and entertaining thriller
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‘Jasmine Days’ by Benyamin, a novel in translation, wins the Rs 25-lakh JCB Prize for Literature
Five novels, two of them translations, were in the running.
Scroll Staff
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Lawyer Gautam Bhatia, writer Mimi Mondal nominated for 2018 Hugo Award
The award recognises the best works in science fiction and fantasy literature.
Scroll Staff
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Amitav Ghosh, Jerry Pinto and Namita Gokhale on the shortlist for the Crossword Book Jury Awards
Currently in its 15th edition, the award recognises authors in four categories of writing – fiction, non-fiction, children’s books and translations.
Scroll Staff
The Field
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IPL 2023: MI's Rohit Sharma and Mark Boucher on Impact Player rule, plans for the season and more
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Shuttle Zone: How to get started with badminton? And how to prepare for matches? Here’s a guide
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Spain Masters Super 300: Aakarshi Kashyap upsets world No 15 Michelli Li, Srikanth wins thriller
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IPL 2023 fixtures list: Here’s the full schedule of 70 matches in the league stage
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IPL 2023: Virat Kohli to Cameron Green, five players to watch out for in new season