2021

Advaita Kala

Best Fiction Category

Advaita Kala is a well-known author, screenwriter, and columnist. She has written screenplays of several successful films and has also authored two novels.

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Amrita Raichand

Best Children's Category

Jerry Pinto is a Mumbai-based Indian English poet, novelist, short story writer, translator, as well as journalist. Pinto's works include Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb, which won the Best Book on Cinema Award at the 54th National Film Awards, Surviving Women and Asylum and Other Poems.

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Arunava Sinha (Chair)

Best Debut Category

Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction from Bangladesh and India into English. He also translates fiction from English into Bengali. Over 65 of his translations have been published so far in India, the UK and the USA.

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Christine Cornet

Best Fiction Category

Dr. Christine Cornet is a university professor and historian. She is the author of several books and is currently serving as Attachée Debates, Ideas and Books at Institut français India/Embassy of France.

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Jerry Pinto (Chair)

Best Children's Category

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Prasoon Joshi (Chair)

Best Fiction Category

Prasoon Joshi is an acclaimed poet, writer, lyricist, screenwriter, communication specialist and marketer. An award winning lyricist, he has also been honoured with Padma Shri by the Indian Government.

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Rajiv Dogra (Chair)

Best Non-Fiction Category

Rajiv Dogra is an Indian diplomat, television commentator, writer and an artist. He was the Indian Ambassador to Italy and Romania and Consul General to Karachi, Pakistan. He has written several short stories and editorials in magazines and newspapers. He has also published six books; three novels and three non- fiction.

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Ravi Subramanian

Best Fiction Category

Ravi Subramanian, an alumnus of IIM Bengaluru, has spent two decades working his way up the ladder of power in the amazingly exciting and adrenaline-pumping world of global banks in India. He is the award-winning author of ten bestselling books. He has also co-authored a Children's book, My First Book Of Money, with Shoma Narayanan. If God was a Banker won him the Golden Quill readers choice award in 2008.

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Ravinder Singh

Best Debut Category

Ravinder Singh is a young and talented author from India, who is known for his popular novel; 'I Too Had a Love Story: Some of his novels that brought him equal level of fame and recognition are; 'Can Love Happen Twice?', 'Tell Me a Story', 'Your Dreams Are Mine now', and 'Like It Happened Yesterday'.

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Saba Bashir

Best Debut

Saba Mahmood Bashir is a poet, author, and translator. Her first book was a collection of poems, 'Memory Past' (2006) brought out by Writers' Workshop. She has also authored 'I Swallowed the Moon: The Poetry of Gulzar' (HarperCollins India, 2013) and translated Gulzar's screenplays of Premchand's 'Godaan' and 'Nirmala and Other Stories'.

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Sujata Noronha

Best Children's Category

Sujata Noronha is an educator with a specialisation in Early Literacy. She works in the library and is based in Goa where she runs a not for profit organisation called Bookworm. Sujata believes that lives change when we read and she nurtures children and adults including educators into this thinking through various professional courses and workshops of multiple kinds.

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Swapna Liddle

Best Non-Fiction Category

Swapna Liddle is an author and a historian with a specialization in the history of Delhi. Known for bringing alive culture, history and heritage in the pages of her books, Swapna is also closely involved in the movement to preserve heritage monuments and sites in the country

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