Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival has announced its shortlists for the 2024 Fiction and Nonfiction Book Prizes. The shortlist will be announced in November. The winners will be announced at the festival which will be held in Bangalore on December 11 and 13.
Here are this year’s longlisted books:
Fiction
Absolute Jafar, Sarnath Banerjee
Allah Miyan’s Workshop, Mohsin Khan, translated from the Urdu by Maaz Bin Bilal
And I Am the Arrow, Pia Ghosh-Roy
August 17, S Hareesh, translated from the Malayalam by Jayasree Kalathil
Egrets, While War: Poems, Tishani Doshi
Gold Sand, Gold Water, Nalini Bera, translated from the Bengali by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
Railsong, Rahul Bhattacharya
The Complex, Karan Mahajan
The First House, Avni Doshi
The Last of Earth, Deepa Anappara
The Man from Kashmir, Muddasir Ramzan
The Sky Husband, Easterine Kire
Non-Fiction
Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya, Anuradha Roy
Chapal Rani, The Last Queen of Bengal: The Life and Times of a Female Impersonator, Sandip Roy
Dalit Women and the Fullness of Life, Christina Dhanuja
Her Story, Her Glory: The Making of Women’s Cricket in India, Aditya Bhushan
I Love My Amma, Vasudhendra, translated from the Kannada by Narayan Shankaran
In the Beginning There Was Bombay Duck: A Food History of Mumbai, Pronoti Datta
Love Jihad: A Feminist Retelling, Sameena Dalwai
Rootless and Restless: A Woman’s Search for Meaningful Adventure in Distant Places, Shivya Nath
Scamlands: Inside the Asian Empire of Fraud that Preys on the World, Snigdha Poonam
The Dig: Keeladi and the Politics of India's Past, Sowmiya Ashok