Crossword and Vodafone are committed to promoting books and the reading habit. The Vodafone Crossword Book Award recognises and rewards the best of Indian writing and ensures that works of merit reach a wider audience.
The longlist was announced last May, followed by a shortlist ceremony last June 18th. Here are the finalists for the award:
FICTION:
- The immortals by Amit Chaudhari – Picador India
- Family Values by Abha Dawesar
– Penguin Books India- If It Is Sweet
by Mridula Koshy – Westland India- Nothing Is Blue
by Biman Nath- Harper Collins India- Venus Crossing: Twelve Stories of Transit by Kalpana Swaminathan
- Penguin Books IndiaNON-FICTION
Title: Violence, Martyrdom and Partition
Author: Nonica Datta
Publisher: Oxford
Title: Bazaars, Conversations & Freedom
Author: Rajni Bakshi
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Title: The Difficulty Of Being Good
Author: Gurcharan Das
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Title: Looking East To Look West
Author: Sunanda K. Datta - Ray
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Title: Baulsphere
Author: Mimlu Sen
Publisher: Random House India
Title: The Bakkarwals of Jammu & Kashmir
Author: Anita Sharma
Publisher: Niyogi Books
Title: Bollywood In Posters
Author:S. M. M. Ausaja
Publisher: OM Books
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Title: The Beast with Nine Billion Feet
Author: Anil Menon
Publisher: Young Zubaan
Title: The Magic Store of Nu-Cham-Vu
Author: Shreekumar Varma
Publisher: Puffin
Title: 103 Journeys, Voyages, Trips and Stuff
Author: Siddhartha Sarma
Publisher: Scholastic India
Title: Taranauts: The Quest for the Shyn Emeralds
Author: Roopa Pai
Publisher: Hachette India
Title: The Grasshopper's Run
Author: Siddhartha Sarma
Publisher: Scholastic India
TRANSLATION
Title: Othappu
Author: Valson Thampu
Translator: Sarah Joseph
Publisher: Oxford
Title: My Kind of Girl
Author: Buddhadeva Bose
Translator: Arunava Sinha
Publisher: Random House India
Title: The Hour before Dawn
Author: Bhabendra Nath Saikia
Translator: Maitreyi S. C.
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Title: The Hour Past Midnight
Author: Salma
Translator: Lakshmi Holmstrom
Publisher: Zubaan
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