Winners of the 2024 Women AutHer Awards announced in four categories

The winners of the 2024 Women AutHer Awards, presented by The Times of India, were announced on Sunday, March 17. The awards are presented to Indian women writers in four categories – fiction, non-fiction, children’s literature, and debut – as well as the popular choice and manuscript categories. The winners were chosen by juries and the popular choice, through online voting. The winning authors received cash prizes of Rs 1,00,000 each, with the amount being shared equally by joint winners.

Novelist Mridula Garg was given the Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to Indian writing in both Hindi and English.

The winners are:

Fiction

• The Laughter, Sonora Jha, Penguin India

• Mad Sisters of Esi, Tashan Mehta, HarperCollins India

Nonfiction

From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada, Sudha Bharadwaj, Juggernaut

Debut

• The Daughters of Madurai, Rajasree Variyar, Hachette India

• How Prime Ministers Decide, Neerja Chowdhury, Aleph Book Company

Children’s literature

• A Children's History of India in 100 Objects, Devika Cariapa, Puffin India

• Zen, Shabnam Minwalla, Duckbill.

Popular choice

Talat Mahmood: A Definitive Biography, Sahar Zaman (self-published)

Manuscript

Kaushalya, Vibha Sangeeta Krishnakumar

The juries for this year’s awards were:

• Fiction: Anuja Chauhan, Pallavi Aiyar, Satyarth Nayak

• Nonfiction: Vikas Swarup, Parvati Sharma, Upinder Singh

• Children’s literature: Preeti Vyas, Christopher Doyle, Kevin Missal

• Debut: Tisca Chopra, Shipra Khanna, Nikesh Murali