Opening lines from Louise Erdrich’s Pulitzer Prize winner ‘The Night Watchman’ and other novels

‘A majestic, polyphonic novel about a community’s efforts to halt the proposed displacement and elimination of several Native American tribes in the 1950s...’

Louise Erdrich

· Jun 16, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Why David Diop’s haunting account of a Senegalese soldier has won the Booker International prize

What readers need to know about ‘At Night All Blood is Black’, translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis.

Caroline D Laurent, The Conversation

· Jun 07, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Opening lines: How the six books shortlisted for the International Booker Prize begin

The winner will be announced on June 2, 2021.

Scroll Staff

· May 04, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Indian writer Taran Khan wins Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year prize for ‘Shadow City’

The award, given in association with the Authors’ Club, is one of the two prizes under the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards.

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· Mar 26, 2021 · 12:05 pm

How the poetry of Anamika, winner of the Hindi Sahitya Akademi award for 2020, challenges patriarchy

‘Frozen on our seats, we girls wondered / Place, what could the place be? / We are out of place already!’

Rekha Sethi

· Mar 14, 2021 · 08:30 am

Poet Arundhathi Subramaniam among 20 winners of 2020 Sahitya Akademi Award

Subramaniam won the award for her poetry collection ‘When God is a Traveller’ in English.

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· Mar 12, 2021 · 08:02 pm

Things are stacked against women’s writing. Can a new prize for women writers really change things?

Novelist Shashi Deshpande fears the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction will not add dignity and prestige to women’s writing overnight.

Shashi Deshpande

· Feb 21, 2021 · 08:30 am

This graphic story by Orijit Sen and Pakhi Sen is the winner of the Hamzanama Comic Contest 2020

‘Heart of Light’ won the $5000 first prize.

Orijit Sen

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Pakhi Sen

· Jan 28, 2021 · 08:30 am

Mihir Dalal’s candid Flipkart story ‘Big Billion Startup’ wins Gaja Capital Business Book Prize

The prize, established by Gaja Capital in 2019, carries an award of Rs 15 lakh for the winner.

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· Jan 21, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay-NIF book prize awarded to authors Jairam Ramesh, Amit Ahuja

The award winners will share the Rs 15 lakh prize money, and will also receive the Book Prize trophy.

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· Dec 10, 2020 · 05:21 pm

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize: Here are the six books on the New India Foundation shortlist

A winner will be announced from the six-book shortlist in December 2020.

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· Nov 16, 2020 · 12:50 pm

S Hareesh wins Rs 25-lakh JCB Prize for Literature 2020 for ‘Moustache’

The debut novel has been translated into English by Jayasree Kalathil.

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· Nov 07, 2020 · 05:54 pm