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

JCB Prize for Literature 2021: What you’ll read if you start on the 10 novels on the longlist

Six debuts. Three women writers. Three translations (all from Malayalam). Vying for the Rs 25-lakh prize.

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· Sep 06, 2021 · 12:46 pm

Interview: Anand Radhakrishnan on being the first Indian to win the Will Eisner award for comics

‘Blue in Green is about existentialism, depression, it’s about the pursuit of excellence and what you have to give up for that.’

Udeshi Basu

· Sep 04, 2021 · 08:30 am

Booker Prize longlist 2021: Opening lines of the 13 novels

The shortlist will be announced on September 14, and the winner, on November 3.

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· Jul 28, 2021 · 05:30 pm

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.

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· 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