Kerala Literature Festival Book of the Year Awards announces fiction and nonfiction shortlists

The Kerala Literature Festival announced its shortlists of nonfiction and fiction for its book awards on Wednesday. The festival will be held in Kozhikode between 23-26 January.

Nonfiction

• City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh, Zeyad Masroor Khan, HarperCollins India

• I Am What I Am: A Memoir, Sunitha Krishnan, Tranquebar/Westland

• Circles of Freedom: Friendship, Love and Loyalty in The Indian National Struggle, TCA Raghavan, Juggernaut Books

• Dalithan: An Autobiography, KK Kochu, translated from the Malayalam, Radhika P Menon, Speaking Tiger Books

• The Identity Project: The Unmaking of a Democracy, Rahul Bhatia, Westland/Context

• The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown, Neha Dixit, Juggernaut

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