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.

Scroll Staff

· Dec 31, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Reading India: 26 books of fiction, non-fiction and children’s literature that won awards in 2021

A convenient reading list.

Priyali Prakash

· Dec 31, 2021 · 08:30 am

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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· Dec 07, 2021 · 06:28 pm

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

· Dec 01, 2021 · 12:00 pm

Author M Mukundan wins JCB Prize for Literature 2021 for ‘Delhi: A Soliloquy’

The novel was translated from Malayalam by Fathima EV and Nandakumar K.

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· Nov 13, 2021 · 08:34 pm

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize: Read the opening lines from the six shortlisted books

The winner of the Rs 15-lakh prize will be announced on December 1, 2021.

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· Nov 10, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Booker Prize: Damon Galgut’s ‘The Promise’ is a reminder of South Africa’s difficult journey

The novel becomes an allegory for the broken promises made to black South Africans at the dawn of the country’s non-racial democracy in 1994.

Daniel Conway, The Conversation

· Nov 08, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Carmen Mola episode: What makes a good literary hoax? A political point, for starters

Three men have ‘unmasked’ themselves as the Spanish writer Carmen Mola after winning the Euro Prize for the novel ‘The Beast’.

Camilla Nelson, The Conversation

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Kerrie Davis, The Conversation

· Oct 27, 2021 · 05:30 pm

JCB Prize shortlist 2021: VJ James, Daribha Lyndem, Shabir Ahmad Mir, M Mukundan, Lindsay Pereira

Three debuts, one woman writer, and two translations from the Malayalam.

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· Oct 04, 2021 · 12:00 pm

Neev Book Awards 2020: Here are the four winning books and their authors (and sneak peeks)

Each of the four categories offers a prize of Rs 1 lakh.

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· Sep 26, 2021 · 08:30 am

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize: The longlist is a reading guide to fascinating non-fiction

Here are the 12 books on the longlist of the Rs 15-lakh prize for non-fiction.

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· Sep 16, 2021 · 02:30 pm

What the JCB Prize for Literature longlist reveals, and what it leaves out, about India today

Refreshingly, more than half of the ten are debut novels.

Sanjay Sipahimalani

· Sep 07, 2021 · 08:30 am