Kalinga Literary Festival Book Awards for 2024 announces longlists in seven categories

The Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF) announced the longlisted titles in English for the annual KLF Book Awards in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children’s literature, business, translations, and debut works. The shortlist will be revealed on January 30 and the winners will be announced on February 15 in New Delhi. Additionally, the Book Prizes will be awarded for Hindi, Sanskrit, and Odia-language books.

Here are the longlists:

Fiction

• Red River, Somnath Batabyal, Context

• Mother India, Prayaag Akbar, Harper Collins India

• Lorenzo Searches for the Meaning of Life, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Speaking Tiger Books

• Loot, Tania James, Penguin

• The Girl with the Seven Lives, Vikas Swarup, Simon and Schuster India

• The Enclave, Rohit Manchanda, Harper Collins India

• Beneath the Devil Tree: Malabar 1921, Anjana Varma, Vitasta

• Devadasi, Sangeeta Bahadur, Parchment Publications

We’re thrilled to unveil the longlist for the Kalinga Literary Festival Book Awards in the Fiction Category (English)!

🌟 Celebrating Fiction Authors: English Longlist for KLF Book Awards 2024! 🌟

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Nonfiction

• Gods, Guns, and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity, Manu S Pillai, Penguin India

• Tipu Sultan: The Saga of Mysore’s Interregnum (1760-1799), Vikram Sampath, Penguin India

• Iru: The Remarkable Life of Irawati Karve, Urmilla Deshpande and Thiago Pinto Barbosa, Speaking Tiger Books

• The Jallianwala Bagh Journals, Sarmistha Dutta Gupta, Jadavpur University Press

• Imperial Games in Tibet, Dilip Sinha, Pan Macmillan India

• The Sherpa Trail: Stories from Darjeeling and Beyond, Nandini Purandare and Deepa…

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