literary awards
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Amitav Ghosh awarded the 2024 Erasmus Prize for ‘imagining the unthinkable’ in his writings
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Upamanyu Chatterjee’s ‘Lorenzo Searches for the Meaning of Life’ wins the JCB Prize for Literature
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Green Literature Festival announces shortlists in all three categories for its 2024 awards
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‘Corruption Plots’, published by India’s Yoda Press, wins 2024 CUAA Antony Leeds Book Prize
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Author Richard Flanagan refuses £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize until sponsor severs fossil fuel ties
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Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival announces nonfiction, fiction shortlists for 2024 awards
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Ramnath Goenka Sahithya Samman award winners for 2024 announced
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Indian writers Arefa Tehsin and Smriti Ravindra make the final round of 2024 Asian Prize for Fiction
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Projit B Mukharji wins Pfizer Award for ‘Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–66’
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Literature Live announces 2024 winners of best books, poet laureate, and lifetime achievement awards
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Alpa Shah’s nonfiction book ‘The Incarcerations’ shortlisted for the 2024 Christopher G Moore Prize
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Ruchira Gupta’s ‘I Kick and I Fly’ wins Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children’s Literature
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Ashok Gopal wins Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize for his Ambedkar biography ‘A Part Apart’
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2024 Booker Prize: Samantha Harvey’s ‘Orbital’ is the first winning novel to be set in space
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The 2024 Crossword Book Awards has announced shortlists of five books in each of its five categories
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Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest announces shortlists in five categories for its 2024 book awards
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Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest announces longlists in five categories for its 2024 book awards
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The 2024 Crossword Book Awards announces shortlists in six categories for its popular choice awards
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Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival announces its children’s books awards shortlists for 2024
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Indian writer Shahnaz Habib wins the 2024 New American Voices Award for her book ‘Airplane Mode’
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2024 JCB Prize for Literature shortlist includes two debut novels and three translations
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Indian author Indra Das wins Best Novella award at the 2024 British Fantasy Awards
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Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival announces its nonfiction and fiction longlists for 2024
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The 2024 Crossword Book Awards longlists of ten books in each of five categories have been announced
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Poet, novelist, and dramatist Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih wins the 2024 Shakti Bhatt Prize
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NIF announces five-book shortlist for the 2024 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize for nonfiction
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Historian Shailaja Paik wins 2024 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for her research on Dalit women
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2024 Booker Prize: Read the opening lines of the six shortlisted novels, 5 of them by women authors
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2024 JCB Prize for Literature longlist: Five translations, four debut novels on the list
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Indian writer Pankaj Mishra wins the 2024 Weston International Award for his nonfiction writing
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Ten-book longlist announced for NIF’s 2024 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize for nonfiction
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Indian authors Tashan Mehta, Indra Das win in two categories at The Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards
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2024 Booker Prize: A reader’s guide to the 13 novels longlisted for this year’s prize
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The 12th edition of the New India Foundation book fellowships opens for applications
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Madhu Khanna’s book ‘Tantra on the Edge’ wins the 2024 Oxford Bookstore Art Book Prize
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Indian-origin literary editor Sana Goyal is on the 2025 International Booker Prize jury
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2024 NIF Translation Fellowship: Four translators from Tamil, Gujarati, Hindi, Urdu win this year
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Arefa Tehsin and Mrinalini Harchandrai’s novels shortlisted for the 2024 Asian Prize for Fiction
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Arundhati Roy wins the 2024 PEN Pinter Prize: ‘Her powerful voice is not to be silenced’
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Indian writer Sanjana Thakur wins the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
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Sahitya Akademi awards: K Vaishali wins Yuva Puraskar, Nandini Sengupta wins Bal Sahitya Puraskar
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VV Ganeshanathan’s novel about the Sri Lankan civil war wins the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction
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Sanjana Thakur from Mumbai is the Asia winner of the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
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Sri Lankan writer VV Ganeshananthan’s novel wins the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
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Indian writer Lavanya Lakshminarayan’s science fiction novel shortlisted for Arthur C Clarke Award
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Bhavi Mehta wins 2024 Oxford Book Cover Prize for designing Pradeep Sebastian’s ‘The Book Beautiful’
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Women’s Prize for Fiction: A reader’s guide to the six books on the 2024 shortlist
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Joya Chatterji’s ‘Shadows at Noon’ wins best history book at the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Awards
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Commonwealth Short Story Prize: Indian writers Ajay Patri, Bharath Kumar, Sanjana Thakur shortlisted
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JCB Prize for Literature announces its 2024 jury, to be chaired by author-translator Jerry Pinto
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International Booker Prize 2024: Read the opening passages of the six shortlisted novels
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Sheikh Zayed Book Award announces the 2024 winners in seven categories
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Madhu Sriwastav wins the 2023 Muse India GSP Rao Translation Award for ‘Post Box 203 Nala Sopara’
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Publishing Next announces its Industry Awards in 11 categories
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Publishing Next Industry Awards 2023 shortlists in ten categories announced
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Winners of the 2024 Women AutHer Awards announced in four categories
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Shortlist for Women AutHer Awards 2024 announced in four categories
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Longlist for 2024 Women AutHer Awards announced in four categories
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‘Muse India’ announces ten-book shortlist for its 2023 GSP Rao Translation Award
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Pankaj Kumar Chatterjee’s Bengali translation of ‘Staliner Divan’ wins Romain Rolland Book Prize
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Poet and filmmaker Gulzar, and Sanskrit scholar Rambhadracharya win 2023 Jnanpith Award
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‘Gabbilam’: Chinnaiah Jangam’s translation from Telugu wins AK Ramanujan Book Prize for Translation
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Kalinga Literary Festival announces winners in seven categories for its 2023 book awards
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Arundhati Subramaniam wins the 2024 Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Poetry Award
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Sanskrit-Spanish translator Óscar Pujol wins 2023-24 Vani Foundation Distinguished Translator Award
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Elizabeth Lhost’s ‘Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia’ wins Karwaan Book Award
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Hussein Barghouthi’s memoir published by India’s Seagull Books wins a 2023 Palestine Book Award
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Sana R Chaudhry wins the 2023 Mozhi Prize for translation
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Kalinga Literary Festival announces shortlists in seven categories for its 2023 book awards
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Janice Pariat’s novel ‘Everything the Light Touches’ wins the 2023 Sushila Devi Award for Best Book
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2023 Sahitya Akademi Award: Novelist Neelum Saran Gour’s ‘Requiem in Raga Janki’ wins in English
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Kalinga Literary Festival announces longlists in various categories for its 2023 book awards
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Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation: Read the two winning poems
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The Kuvempu Rashtriya Puraskar 2023 goes to Bengali writer Shirshendhu Mukhopadhyay
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Akshaya Mukul’s biography of writer Agyeya wins the 2023 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize
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Booker Prize 2023: What Paul Lynch’s win means and why we’re in a ‘golden age’ of Irish writing
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New India Foundation announces shortlist for 2023 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize for nonfiction
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‘Fire Bird’, by Perumal Murugan, translated by Janani Kannan, wins the 2023 JCB Prize for Literature
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Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival announces its shortlists for 2023 Book Prizes
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‘Courting India’ by Nandini Das wins British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding
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2023 Tata Literature Live awards: Here are the fiction, nonfiction, and business books winners
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Meet Pramila Venkateswaran, winner of the Best Poetry Award at New York Book Festival
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Wrong signals? Palestinian author Adania Shibli’s award cancelled at the Frankfurt Book Fair
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2023 JCB Prize for Literature: Three translated and two English-language novels make the shortlist
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New India Foundation announces longlist of 2023 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize for nonfiction
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Tata Literature Live announces shortlists for its 2023 fiction, nonfiction, business books awards
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Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival announces its longlists for 2023 Book Prizes
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Priyamvada Ramkumar and Jayasree Kalathil shortlisted for 2023 ALTA National Translation Awards
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Tata Literature Live announces longlists for its fiction, nonfiction, and business books awards
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Jon Fosse: The Nobel Prize in Literature winner is a playwright who puts outsiders centrestage
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Tamil writer CS Lakshmi, aka Ambai, receives two lifetime achievement awards for her body of work
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Aravind Jayan’s novel shortlisted for the 2023 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction
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Reading list: Winners of the 2023 Valley of Words Book Awards in English and Hindi languages
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Three translations from South Asia longlisted for the 2023 ALTA National Translation Awards in Prose
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2023 JCB Prize for Literature longlist: Four translations, three debut novels. A reader’s guide
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Shankari Chandran, novelist of Sri Lankan descent, wins Australia’s Miles Franklin Literary Award
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Imaginative fiction reading list: Here are the nine books shortlisted for the Ursula K Le Guin Prize
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Seven winners receive the New India Foundation’s Rs 18 lakh fellowships to write new books
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Urdu novel ‘Allah Miyan Ka Karkhana’ wins 2023 Bank of Baroda award for translations into Hindi
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Ramachandra Guha’s ‘Rebels Against the Raj’ wins Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography