The Bangalore Literature Festival and Atta Galatta 2025, the bookstore, announced its book prize winners in fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature, cover design, and popular choice categories.
Here is the complete list of winners:
Fiction:
The Elsewhereans: A Documentary Novel, Jeet Thayil, Harper Collins India
Deviants: The Queer Family Chronicles, Santanu Bhattacharya, Westland Publishing
Nonfiction: Rama Bhima Soma: Cultural Investigations into Modern Karnataka, Srikar Raghavan, Westland Publishing
Cover design: Song of the Asunam, Rajiv Eipe, Harper Collins India
Popular choice: The Commonsense Diet: Stop Overthinking, Start Eating, Rujuta Diwekar, Juggernaut
Children’s Picture Book Story: Go Go Flamingo, Devashish Makhija, Tulika Books
Children’s Picture Book Illustration: The Little Book of Indian Dogs, illustrated by Chandrima Chatterjee, Harper Collins India
Children’s Fiction: Giants, Huthuka Sumi, Harper Collins India
Children’s Nonfiction: History Unpacked: The Why, When and What of Ancient India, Saisudha Acharya, Penguin India
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