KLF Announces Titles For Book Awards 2020-21; From Amitav Ghosh To S Jaishankar, Check Out The Full List Here

The titles selected for the awards include acclaimed writers Amitav Ghosh’s ‘Jungle Nama’ to Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar's ‘The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World’.

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Updated on: 11 September 2021 6:44 pm

Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF) has announced KLF Book Awards 2020-21 in various categories.

The titles selected for the awards include acclaimed writers Amitav Ghosh’s ‘Jungle Nama’ to Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar's ‘The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World’.

It also includes Gopalkrishna Gandhi’s ‘Restless as Mercury: My Life as a Young Man Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’, Gulzar’s ‘A Poem a Day’, Sandeep Bamzai’s ‘Princestan: How Nehru, Patel and Mountbatten Made India’ and Shashi Tharoor & Samir Saran’s ‘The New World Disorder’.

The awards cover various categories such as Non-fiction Book, Fiction book, Poetry Book , Hindi Book, Book in Translation , Bhasa First Book, Business Book, Strategic Affairs Book , Environmental Book , Biography/Autobiography Book , Children Book, Sports Book, Life Style and Emerging Trend Books and others.

An official statement from KLF said that the winner will be felicitated and awarded during the annual Kalinga Literary Festival, scheduled to be held on December 10,11,12, 2021 at Bhubaneswar. KLF Book Awards, established by KLF in 2021, will be conferred based on the recommendations by an independent Award Jury, it said.

“KLF Book Awards jury members have chosen the best thought provoking contributions across different categories published during 2020-21. There will be dedicated sessions on these books by the authors and erudite reviewers to enrich the intellectual discussion at Kalinga Literary Festival,” said Rashmi Ranjan Parida, Founder and Director of Kalinga Literary Festival.

Here’s the full list of titles selected for the KLF Book Awards 2020-21 in various categories:

KLF Fiction Book of the Year Award 2020-21 (5):

Jahnavi Baruah’s “Undertow”, Penguin Random House India (2020)
Namita Gokhale and Malashri Lal’s “Betrayed by Hope: A Play on the Life of Michael Madhusudan Dutt”, HarperCollins India (2020)
Tarana Husain Khan’s “The Begum and the Dastan”, Tranquebar, Westland (2021)
Ashwani Sanghi’s “The Vault of Vishnu”, Westland (2020)
Ashok Kaul’s “Undercover in Bandipore”, Vitasta Publishing Pvt Ltd (2020)

KLF Non-fiction Book of the Year Award 2020-21 (7):

Sandeep Bamzai’s “Princestan: How Nehru, Patel and Mountbatten Made India”, Rupa Publications (2020)
Shashi Tharoor & Samir Saran’s “The New World Disorder”, Aleph Book Company (2020)
Vinay Sitapati’s “Jugalbandi: The BJP Before Modi”, Penguin Viking-Penguin Random House India (2020)
Pavan K Varma’s “The Great Hindu Civilisation: Achievement, Neglect, Bias and the Way Forward”, Westland (2021)
T M Krishna’s “A Brief History of Mrdangam Makers”, Context, Westland (2020)
Ashutosh Bhardwaj’s “The Death Script”, HarperCollins India (2020)
Prem Prakash’s “Reporting India”, Ebury Press, Penguin Random House India (2020)

KLF Poetry Book of the Year Award 2020-21 (5):

Gulzar’s “A Poem a Day”, HarperCollins India (2020)
Abhay K’s “Kalidasa: Meghduta-The Cloud Messenger” & “Kalidasa: Ritusamhara-The Six Seasons” (Jointly), Bloomsbury (2021)
Greta Rana’s “From Castleford to Kathmandu”, Vajra Books (2021)
Basant Chaudhary’s “Anek Pal aaur Mai”, Vani Prakashan (2021)

KLF Hindi Book of the Year Award 2020-21 (5):

Neelakshi Singh’s “Khela”, Setu Prakashan (2021)
Alka Saraogi’s “Kulbhooshan Ka Naam Darj Kijiye”, Vani Prakashan (2020)
Mamta Kalia’s “Ravi Katha: Andaaz-E-Bayan Urf Ravi Katha”, Vani Prakashan (2020)
Praveen Kumar Jha’s “Wah Ustad”, Rajpal & Sons (2020)
Shirish Khare’s “Ek Desh Barah Duniya”, Rajpal & Sons (2021)

KLF Book in Translation of the Year Award 2020-21 (1):

Perumal Murugan’s “Estuary”-Translated by Nandini Krishnan, Eka, Westland (2020)

KLF Bhasa Award 2020-21 (1):

Manoranjan Byapari’s “The Runaway Boy”, Eka, Westland (2020)

KLF Debut Book Award 2020-21 (1):

Sonu Sood & Meena Iyer’s “I am no Messiah”, Penguin eBury Press (2020)

KLF Business Book of the Year Award 2020-21 (3):

R C Bhargava’s “Getting Competitive: A Practitioner’s Guide for India”, HarperCollins India (2020)
Urjit Patel’s “Overdraft”, HarperCollins India (2020)
Tamal Bandyopadhyay’s “Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy”, Roli Books (2020)

KLF Diplomacy/Strategic Affairs Book of the Year Award 2020-21 (3):

S Jaishankar’s “The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World”, HarperCollins India (2020)
Zorawar Daulet Singh’s “Powershift: India-China Relations in a Multipolar World”, Pan Macmillan (2020)
Subramanian Swamy’s “Himalayan Challenge: India, China and the Quest for Peace”, Rupa Publications (2020)

KLF Environmental Book of the Year Award 2020-21 (2):

Shekhar Pathak’s “Hari Bhari Ummid”, Vani Prakashan (2020)/ The Chipko Movement: A People’s History, Permanent Black (2020)
Amitav Ghosh’s “Jungle Nama”, Fourth Estate India-HarperCollins India, (2021)

KLF Women/Dalit/Tribal/Minorities Literature Award 2020-21 (5):

Gopinath Mohanty’s “Harijan: A Novel”-Translated by Bikram Das, Aleph Book Company (2021)
Sudarshan Ramabadran and Guru Prakash Paswan’s “Makers of Modern Dalit History”, Penguin Random House India (2021)
A Plate of White Marble (Shwet Patharer Thala) by Bani Basu (Translated by Nandini Guha), Niyogi Books (2020)
Pradeep Srivastav’s “Ramvilas Paswan: Sankalp, Sahas aaur Sangharsh”, Penguin Random House India (2020)
Shafey Kidwai’s “Sir Syed Ahmad Khan: Reason, Religion and Nation”, Routledge (2021)

KLF Biography/Autobiography Book of the Year Award 2020-21 (5):

Tenzin Geyche Tethong’s “His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama: An Illustrated Biography”, Roli Books (2020)
Gopalkrishna Gandhi’s “Restless as Mercury: My Life as a Young Man Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”, Aleph Book Company (2021)
Yatindra Mishra’s “Akhtari: The Life and Music of Begum Akhtar”, HarperCollins India (2021)
Rasheed Kidwai’s “Bharat Ke Pradhan Mantri”, Rajkamal Prakashan (2021)
John Zubrzycki’s The House of Jaipur: The Inside Story of India’s Most Glamorous Royal Family, Juggernaut (2020)

KLF Children Book of the Year Award 2020-21 (2):

Ruskin Bond’s “Miracle at Happy Bazaar: My Best Stories for Children”, Aleph Book Company (2020)
Sudha Murthy’s “Grandparents’ Bag of Stories”, Puffin, Penguin Random House India (2020)

KLF Sports Book of the Year Award 2020-21 (1):