Reader’s guide: The 2023 International Booker Prize longlist (including Perumal Murugan’s ‘Pyre’)

Translated from the Tamil by Aniruddhan Vasudevan, ‘Pyre’ is the only Indian book among the 13 in the running for the £50,000 prize.

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· Mar 15, 2023 · 12:30 pm

‘Doesn’t worry about fitting in’: Amit Chaudhuri on 2023 PEN/Nabokov Award winner Vinod Kumar Shukla

‘All his writing is a compelling combination of strangeness, acute observation, love of life, and unexpected thinking.’

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· Mar 12, 2023 · 08:32 am

Writer Vinod Kumar Shukla wins 2023 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature

The jury said, ‘[...] Shukla’s voice is that of a deeply intelligent onlooker; a daydreamer struck occasionally by wonder.’

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· Feb 28, 2023 · 12:09 pm

2023 Dylan Thomas Prize longlist: 12 authors, aged 39 and younger, compete for £20,000 cash prize

Of the 12 longlisted authors, six are debutants and eight are women. The shortlist of six will be announced on March 23 and the winner, on May 11.

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· Jan 30, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Shubhangi Swarup’s ‘Latitudes of Longings’ wins 2023 Émile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature

Shubhangi Swarup’s novel has been published as ‘Dérive des âmes et des continents’ in French translation. It is the first Indian novel to win the prize.

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· Jan 23, 2023 · 05:34 pm

‘Tomb of Sand’ translator Daisy Rockwell gets 2023 Vani Foundation Distinguished Translator Award

The award recognises her contribution towards making Hindi and Urdu visible on the global literary landscape.

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· Jan 10, 2023 · 04:14 pm

Sahitya Akademi awards: Novelist Anuradha Roy, translator N Kalyan Raman win in English categories

Authors will receive a cash prize of Rs 1,00,000 each, and translators, Rs 50,000 each, for their winning books.

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· Dec 23, 2022 · 02:24 pm

The Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize reveals its 2023 longlist of 21 books

The shortlist for the award will be unveiled at Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival in January 2023.

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· Dec 21, 2022 · 11:18 am

Goodreads readers pick their choices of 2022. Are your favourite books of the year among them?

Nearly 60 lakh votes were cast by readers for the Goodreads Choice Awards to honour the best of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and more published in 2022.

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· Dec 17, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Kanad Sinha, Audrey Truschke, Christophe Jaffrelot, Pratinav Anil win the 2022 Karwaan Book Award

The prize is awarded every year to book(s) that represent the outstanding work of historical scholarship focused on the history of Indian subcontinent.

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· Dec 06, 2022 · 02:21 pm

Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival announces winners of its annual literary prizes

Debutants Vauhini Vara and Shrayana Bhattacharya are the winners in the best adult fiction and nonfiction categories respectively.

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· Dec 06, 2022 · 12:48 pm

Shekhar Pathak’s ‘The Chipko Movement’ wins Rs 15-lakh 2022 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize

The book has been translated from the Hindi by Manisha Chaudhry.

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· Dec 01, 2022 · 01:00 pm