Raymond Crossword Book Award 2014- Shortlist Announced
April, 2015 Mumbai: Raymond & Crossword in association with Principal Retirement Advisors, Club Mahindra, Kotak Mahindra Bank and Runwal Group announce the Shortlist for its Fiction, Non fiction, Translation & Children’s Categories.
The shortlist is arrived by an esteemed panel of Jury members in every category. Final winners will be announced on the award function to be held in Mumbai on 28th April Tuesday at NCPA Tata Theatre at 7pm. Raymond Crossword Book Award had also earlier released the shortlisted books for the popular award.
Indian Fiction
· The Competent Authority by Shovon Chowdhury, Aleph
· The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baske by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, Aleph
· The Smoke is Rising by Mahesh Rao, Random House India
· This Place by Amitabha Bagchi, Harper Collins
· Odysseus Abroad by Amit Chaudhuri, Penguin Books India
· The Blind Lady’s Descendants by Anees Salim, Westland
Indian Non Fiction
· Capital by Rana Dasgupta, Harper Collins
· A Southern Music by T.M. Krishna, Harper Collins
· Filomena's Journeys by Maria Aurora Couto , Aleph
· Colours of the Cage: A Prison Memoir by Arun Ferreira, Aleph
· Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India by Pratiksha Baxi, Oxford University Press
· This Divided Island : Stories from the Sri Lankan War by Samanth Subramanian, Penguin Books India
Indian Language Translation:
· Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar translated by Jerry Pinto, Penguin Books India
· Children, Women, Men by Sundara Ramaswamy translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom, Penguin Books India
· One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan, Penguin Books India
· The Mirror of Beauty by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, Penguin Books India
· A Dirge for the Dammed, by Vishwas Patil translated by Keerti Ramachandra, Hachette India
· The Death of Sheherzad by Intizaar Hussain translated by Rakshanda Jalil, Harper Collins
Children’s Writing:
· Vanamala and the Cephalopod by Shalini Srinivasan, Duckbill
· Timmi in Tangles by Shalini Mahajan, Duckbill
· The Susu Pals by Richa Jha, SWPB
· The Adventures of Skoob by Samit Basu, Rupa Publications
· Flat-track Bullies by Balaji Venkataramanan, Duckbill
Popular Award Nominations:
· The Accidental Prime Minister by Sanjaya Baru, Penguin Books India
· Sita by Devdutt Pattanaik, Penguin Books India
· The Mahabharata Secret by Christopher Doyle, Om Books International
· Bankerupt by Ravi Subramanian, Penguin Books India
· Byculla To Bangkok by S Hussain Zaidi, Harper Collins India
· My Journey:Transforming Dreams Into Action by Dr A.P.J Kalam, Rupa Publications India
· Dilip Kumar - The Substance by Dilip Kumar, Hay House india
· Like It Happened Yesterday by Ravinder Singh, Penguin Books India
· Ajaya byAnand Neelkantan, Leadstart Publishing
· Private India by Ashwin Sanghi, Random House India
· House Of Cards by Sudha Murty, Penguin Books India
· Gandhi Before India by Ramchandra Guha, Penguin Books India
· Chanakya's 7 Secrets Of Leadership by Radhakrishnan Pillai & D. Sivanandhan, Jaico Publishing
· When Only Love Remains by Durjoy Datta, Penguin Books India
This year The Crossword Book Award 2014 considered entries published in India from 1st April 2013 to 30thSeptember 2014. This year only 6 entries per publisher per category were considered. Voting for the Popular Award closes on 26th April.
About the Awards
Crossword Book Award is the only Indian award that recognizes and rewards good writing and also actively promotes Indian authors and their books.
When the book awards were launched in 1998, there was one cash prize of Rs. 2 lakhs for the best original work of fiction in English by an Indian author, and it was won by Allan Sealy for The Everest Hotel. In 1999, a new category was added Indian Language Fiction Translation into English and the cash prize was increased to 3 lakhs in each category. In 2005, two more award categories were added English Non-Fiction, as well as the Popular Award. In 2009 award for Indian Children’s writing was introduced thus making it the only Indian literary award that rewards authors across 5 different categories.
Each award carries a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh, a trophy and a citation.
About Crossword:
Crossword Bookstores Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary Company of Shopper's Stop Ltd - India's leading department store chain with 97 stores, across 33cities in India and as on today is India's fastest growing chain of bookstores. At Crossword we aim to be a point of cultural and social interaction where authors and poets hold court, where children are regaled, where people gravitate to be informed, to be entertained, even enlightened. Crossword vision is to build community centers for readers across the Country. Crossword launched the Crossword Book Award in 1998 to recognize and reward the best of Indian writing across Fiction, Non Fiction, Children's, Translation & Popular. Since its inception in 15th October 1992, It has been featured in Advertising Age International, USA, as one of the Marketing Superstars for 1994. The Bookseller, UK, has also described it as 'being on the cutting edge of retailing' in India. Crossword was ranked the 6th most admired retailer in India by Business world for the year 2006. It also won the Star Retailer Award for the Best Lifestyle Retailer in Books & Music in 2011. Crossword won the Retailer of the Year Award - Leisure (Books, Music and Gifts Category) at the Images Retail Awards 2005 & 2007& 2009. Crossword received the Federation of Indian Publishers Award for excellence in Publishing for the year 2004 on 18th June 2005 at the hands of Shri Arjun Singh, Minister of Human Resource Development. It won the Debutant E-retailer of the year - books - at India eRetail Awards 2012. In 2013 Crossword also won The ET Retail Award for Marketing for ‘Crossword Popular Award’. It won the Best Book retailer award in 2014 at the Indian Retail Awards
About Raymond Limited
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