Literary Awards
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Reading list: The nine imaginative fiction books shortlisted for Ursula K Le Guin Prize for Fiction
The winner will be announced on October 21, 2022, Ursula K Le Guin’s birthday, and will be awarded $25,000 as prize money.
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Booker Prize longlist 2022: Here are the opening lines of the 13 novels
The shortlist of six will be announced on September 6, 2022.
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Shanta Gokhale, Kumar Nawathe among winners of Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation 2021
Twenty-two works in as many languages were chosen by the executive committee of literary organisation for the awards.
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In their own words: International Booker winners Geetanjali Shree and translator Daisy Rockwell
Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb of Sand’, translated by Daisy Rockwell, is the first Hindi work to win the International Booker Prize.
Geetanjali Shree & Daisy Rockwell
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Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb of Sand’, translated by Daisy Rockwell, wins International Booker Prize
It is the first Hindi novel, and the first from India as well as south Asia, to win the award, which is for translated works of fiction from around the world.
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International Booker Prize 2022: Notes from the readings before the prize announcement
Several of the shortlisted authors and translators read from their books at the Southbank Centre in London. Whose names will be announced as winners today?
Vighnesh Hampapura
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Booker Prize International 2022: Read the opening lines of the 13 longlisted books
Including Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb of Sand’, translated by Daisy Rockwell
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How Daisy Rockwell translated the first Hindi novel to be on the Booker International longlist
Rockwell’s translation of Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb of Sand’ is the first book from India to be on the Booker International longlist for translated works.
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Sahitya Akademi awards 2021: What to expect from the three winning books in the English language
The winners were Megha Majumdar, Namita Gokhale, Anita Vaccharjani.
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Reading India: 26 books of fiction, non-fiction and children’s literature that won awards in 2021
A convenient reading list.
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Assamese poet Nilmani Phookan, Goan novelist Damodar Mauzo win Jnanpith Award
Previously, both of them have received the Sahitya Akademi Award, which is considered among India’s most prestigious literary honours.
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Dinyar Patel wins the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize for his biography of Dadabhai Naoroji
The Rs 15-lakh prize given by the New India Foundation goes to Patel for ‘Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism’.
Dinyar Patel
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