Geetanjali Shree is an Indian novelist and short-story writer who is well known for her Hindi-language novel ‘Ret Samadhi’ (2018), which was translated into English as ‘Tomb of Sand’ by Daisy Rockwell. Shree rose to prominence in 2022 when ‘Tomb of Sand’ won the prestigious International Booker Prize. Geetanjali Shree is the author of three…
KLF Fiction Book Award 2022: ENGLISH Navtej Sarna’s Crimson Spring (Aleph Book Company) HINDI Pravin Kumar’s Amar Desva (Radhakrishna Prakashan/ Rajakamal Prakashan Samuh)
KLF Non-fiction Book Award 2022: ENGLISH Sanjeev Sanyal’s- Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won its Freedom (HarperCollins) Akshaya Mukul’s- Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya (Penguin) HINDI Kailash Satyarthi’s – Tum Pehle Kyon Nahi Aaye (Rajakamal Prakasahn Samuh) Akhilesh’s – AKS (Setu Prakashan Samuh)
LF Book in Translation Award 2022 JADUNAMA: Javed Akhtar’s Journey (English) by Arvind Mandloi Translated by Dr. Rakhshanda Jalil (Amaryllis; Manjul) The Bride: The Maithili Classic Kanyadan By Harimohan Jha Translated by Lalit Kumar (HarperCollins)
KLF Lifestyle/Biography/Environment & Emerging Trend Book Award Bimal Prasad & Sujata Prasad’s, The Dream of Revolution: A Biography of Jayaprakash Narayan (Penguin) Hindol Sengupta’s Sing, Dance and Pray: The Inspirational Story of Srila Prabhupada Founder-Acharya of ISKCON (Penguin) Satyajit Ray Miscellany: On Life, Cinema, People & Much More (Penguin) Abhay K- The Book of Bihari…
KLF First Book Award 2022 Farah Bashir’s – Rumours of Spring HarperCollins) Sumit Sharma Sameer’s Wake Up Ali…Wake Up Now (Fiction, Vitasta) Pradeep Baishakh Faces of Inequality : Stories of the poor and underprivileged from India’s grassroots (Notion Press)
KLF Children Book Award 2022 Zarin Virji’s – Gopal’s Gully (Penguin)
KLF Women/Dalit/Tribal/Minorities Literature Award 2022 Machhliyan Gayengi Ek Din Pandumgeet- Poonam Vasam (Vani Prakashan)
KLF Business Book Award 2022 Piyush Pandey’s Open House (Penguin)
KLF Bhasha Book Award 2022 Nepali: Ranjana Niraula- Anubhuti Ko Awataran (Shikha Books, Kathmandu) Maithili: Mahendra Malangia’s- Dak, Ghagh aa Bhaddari (Malangia Arts), New Delhi Kannada: Sreenivasa Murthy N S’s Shilpakala Devaaalayakke Daari (Kamla Enteprises, Bangalore) Odia: KamlaKant Mohapatra’s- Bou Hajila O Milia (4Corners, Bhubneshwar) Malayalam: KR Meera (Qabar)