The winners of the 2025 Ramnath Goenka Sahitya Samman have been announced. Kannada writer Chandrasekar Kambara received the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Indian literature, particularly Kannada poetry, theatre and folklore-based writing.
Subi Taba won the Ramnath Goenka Sahitya Samman for Best Fiction for Tales from the Dawn-Lit Mountains, Sudeep Chakravarti received the award for Best Nonfiction for Fallen City: A Double Murder, Political Insanity, and Delhi’s Descent from Grace, while Neha Dixit won the Best Debut award for The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown.
The jury was chaired by author and former ambassador of India to Bhutan Pavan K Varma, with writer-economist Sanjeev Sanyal and author Githa Hariharan as members.
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