The White Owl Literature Festival announces its shortlists in three categories for 2025 book awards

The White Owl Literature Festival and Book Fair has announced the shortlists for its second edition of book awards. The awards will be given in the Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry categories. The Festival and Book Fair will be held between February 17 and 19 in Chümoukedima, Nagaland.

The shortlisted books in each category are:

Nonfiction

• Sacred Sins: Devadasis in Contemporary India, Arun Ezhuthachan, translated from the Malayalam by Meera Gopinath, Hachette India

• Fifty Year Road: A Personal History of India from the Mid-Sixties Onward, Bhaskar Roy, Jaico Publishing House

• An Inky Paradise: Tales of Bibliophiles, Pradeep Sebastian, Hachette, India

• The Last Dance of Rationality: Making Sense of an Unravelling World Order, Rohit Prasad, Hachette India

• The Day I Became a Runner: A Women’s History of India Through the Lens of Sport, Sohini Chattopadhyay, Harper Collins India

Fiction

• The Viceroy’s Artist, Anindyo Roy, Hachette India

• The Blue Bar, Damyanti Biswas, Jaico Publishing

• Eden Abandoned: The Story of Lilith, Shinie Antony, Hachette India

• Taxi, Manjula Padmanabhan, Hachette India

• 17, Morris Road, Parul Sharma, Hachette India

Poetry

• How to Love in Sanskrit: Poems, translated by Anusha Rao and Suhas Mahesh, HarperCollins India

• Anemone Morning and Other Poems, Gopal Lahiri, Penprints

• Coins in Rivers, Rochelle Potkar, Hachette India

• Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation, Sudeep Sen, Pippa Rann

• How Women Become Poems in Malabar, Smitha Seghal, Red River

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