Shortlist for 2019
These are the books that have been shortlisted for the REC-VoW Book Awards 2019.
Writings for Young Adults
Adventures of Bozo and Chic
Ranjit Lal
Rupa Publications
Creative Writing in English (Fiction & Poetry)
Ashtamahishi
Radha Viswanath
Rupa Publications
Translated into English, Translations
Ballad of Kaziranga
Dileep Chandan (Parbina Rashid)
Niyogi Books
Translated into English, Translations
City of my heart
(Translated by) Rana Safvi
Hachette India
English Non-fiction
Connaught Place and the making of New Delhi
Swapna Liddle
Speaking Tiger Publishing
English Non-fiction
Daughters of the Sun
Ira Mukhoty
Aleph Book Company
Translated into English, Translations
Day and Dastan: Two novellas
Intizar Husain (Nishat Zaidi, Alok Bhalla)
Niyogi Books
Creative Writing in English (Fiction & Poetry)
Kipling File
Sudhir Kakar
Penguin Random House India
Translated into Hindi, Translations
Navagraha Purana: Tales of the Nine Planets
VS Rao
Jaico Publishing House
Creative Writing in English (Fiction & Poetry)
Night of Happiness
Tabish Khair
Pan Macmillan
English Non-fiction
Strangers No More
Sanjoy Hazarika
Aleph Book Company
Translated into English, Translations
Strike a Blow to Change the World
Eknath Awad (Jerry Pinto)
Speaking Tiger Publishing
Creative Writing in English (Fiction & Poetry)
Swerving to Solitude
Keki N Daruwalla
Simon & Schuster
Creative Writing in English (Fiction & Poetry)
The Conqueror
Aditya Iyengar
Hachette India
Creative Writing in English (Fiction & Poetry)
The Other
Paro Anand
Speaking Tiger Publishing
English Non-fiction
Wisdom from the Ramayana
Chaitaya Charan
Fingerprint! Publishing
Hindi Fiction
एक सच्ची झूठी गाथा (Ek Sacchi Jhoothi Gatha)
Rajkamal Prakashan
Hindi Fiction
चौराह (Chaurah)
जितेन ठाकुर
Medha Books
Hindi Non-fiction
जब नील का दाग़ मिटा (Jab Neel ka Daag Mita)
पुष्यमित्र (Pushyamitra)
Rajkamal Prakashan
Translated into Hindi, Translations
तीरे तीरे नर्मदा (Tire Tire Narmada)
अमृतलाल वेगड़ (Amrutlal Vegad)
Bharatiya Jnanpith
Hindi Non-fiction
दरकते हिमालय पर दर-ब-दर (Darakte Himalaya Par Dar-Ba-Dar)
अजय सोडानी (Ajay Sodani)
Rajkamal Prakashan
Hindi Fiction
प्रेम लहरी (Prem Lahari)
त्रिलोक नाथ पांडे (Trilok Nath Pandey)
Rajkamal Prakashan
Hindi Non-fiction
बदलता गाँव, बदलता देहात (Badalta Gaon, Badalta Dehat)
सतेंद्र कुमार (Satendra Kumar)
Oxford University Press
Translated into Hindi, Translations
भ्रम और निरसन (Bhram Aur Nirsan)
नरेन्द्र दाभोलकर (Narendra Dabholkar)
Rajkamal Prakashan
Translated into Hindi, Translations
मैं हिजड़ा… मैं लक्ष्मी [Main Hijra… Main Laxmi]
Laxminarayan Tripathi (Dr. Shashikala Rai, Surekha Bankar)
Vani Prakashan/Nine Books
Hindi Fiction
रेत समाधी (Ret Samadhi)
गीतांजलि श्री (Geetanjali Shree)
Rajkamal Prakashan