2021

Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize 2021 Winners

Best Fiction

Alipura - Gyan Chaturvedi

Salim Yusufji

Best Non Fiction

Born a Muslim: Some Truths About Islam in India

Ghazala Wahab

Popular Choice

Unfinished: A Memoir

Priyanka Chopra Jonas

Best YA Book

Saira Zariwala is Afraid

Shabnam Minwalla

Best Children’s Picture Book

The Girl Who Loved to Sing: Teejan Bai

Lavanya Karthik

Best Cover Design

Shadow Craft: Visual Aesthetics of Black and White Hindi Cinema

Kapil Gupta

Achievement in Kannada Literature

Jogi

Girish Rao Hatwar

Fiction

Shortlist Longlist

A Mirror Made of Rain

Naheed Phiroze Patel

Fourth Estate India

Alipura

Gyan Chaturvedi

Translated by Salim Yusufji

Juggernaut

Asoca: A Sutra

I. Allan Sealy

Penguin Viking

Names of the Women

Jeet Thayil

Jonathan Cape

The Runaway Boy

Manoranjan Byapari

Translated by V. Ramaswamy

Eka

Whereabouts

Jhumpa Lahiri

Penguin Hamish Hamilton

A Mirror Made of Rain

Naheed Phiroze Patel

Fourth Estate India

A Passage North

AnukArudpragasam

Hogarth

Alipura

Gyan Chaturvedi

Translated by Salim Yusufji

Juggernaut

Asoca: A Sutra

I. Allan Sealy

Penguin Viking

Civil Lines

Radhika Swarup

Simon & Schuster India

Names of the Women

Jeet Thayil

Jonathan Cape

The Last Queen

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

HarperCollins India

The Lesbian Cow and Other Stories

Indu Menon

Translated by Nandakumar K

Eka

The Runaway Boy

Manoranjan Byapari

Translated by V. Ramaswamy

Eka

Whereabouts

Jhumpa Lahiri

Penguin Hamish Hamilton

Non-Fiction

Shortlist Longlist

A Forgotten Ambassador in Cairo: The Life and Times of Syud Hossain

N.S Vinodh

S&S India

Born a Muslim: Some Truths About Islam in India

Ghazala Wahab

Aleph Book Company

False Allies: India’s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma

Manu Pillai

Juggernaut

Leopard Diaries: The Rosette in India

Sanjay Gubbi

Westland

The Silent Coup: A History of India's Deep State

Josy Joseph

This Life At Play: Memoirs

Girish Karnad

Fourth Estate

Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh : India’s Lonely Young Women and The Search for Intimacy and Independence

Shrayana Bhattacharya

Harper Collins

Humans of Covid: To Hell and Back

Barkha Dutt

Juggernaut

India, Bharat and Pakistan: The Constitutional Journey of a Sandwiched Civilization

J. Sai Deepak

Bloomsbury

Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses

Pranay Lal

Penguin Viking

Lords of the Deccan: Southern India from The Chalukyas and The Cholas

Anirudh Kanisetti

Juggernaut

Not Just Cricket: A Reporter’s Journey Through Modern India

Pradeep Magazine

Harper Collins

The Gorakhpur Hospital Tragedy: A Doctor’s Memoir of a Deadly Medical Crisis

Kafeel Khan

Pan Macmillan

The New BJP: Modi and The Making of the World’s Largest Political Party

Nalin Mehta

Westland Books

The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

Amitav Ghosh

Penguin Allen Lane

Whole Number and Half Truths : What Data Can and Cannot Tell us About Modern India

Rukmini S

Context / Westland Books

Whose Samosa is it Anyways: The Story of Where “Indian” Food Really Came From

Sonal Ved

Penguin Viking

Writer Rebel Soldier Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya

Akshaya Mukul

Penguin Vintage

Young Adult

Shortlist

It Has No Name

Payal Dhar

Red Panda

Mahabharata for Children

Arshia Sattar

Juggernaut

Saira Zariwala is Afraid

Shabnam Minwalla

Harper Children's

The Nameless God

Savie Karnel

Red Panda

The Secret Life of Debbie G

Vibha Batra

Harper Children's

Unfair

Rasil Ahuja

Puffin

Children’s Picture Book

Shortlist

Asamo Is That You?

Canato Jimo and Ogin Nayam

Mermaids in the Moonlight

Sharanya Manivannan

Red Panda

Sometimes Mama, Sometimes Papa- Nandini Nayar

Upamanyu Bhattacharyya

Puffin

The Girl Who Loved to Sing: Teejan Bai

Lavanya Karthik

Penguin

The Hungry Little Sky Monster- Rohini Nilekani

Rohini Nilekani and Megha Punater

Juggernaut

Tomatoes for Neela- Padma Lakshmi

Juana Martinez-Neal

‎Viking Books

Best Cover Design

Shortlist

A God at the Door by Tishani Doshi

Tishani Doshi

Bloodaxe Books

Bene Appetit: The Cuisine of Indian Jews

Esther David

HarperCollins India

Desi Delicacies: Food Writing from Muslim South Asia

Claire Chambers

Picador India

Shadow Craft: Visual Aesthetics of Black and White Hindi Cinema

Gayathri Prabhu and Nikhil Govind

Bloomsbury Academic

The Oracle of Karuthupuzha: A Novel

Manu Bhattathiri

Aleph Book Company

What We Know About Her by Krupa Ge

Krupa Ge

Westland Publications

Popular Choice

Shortlist

Kareena Kapoor Khan's Pregnancy Bible: The Ultimate Manual for Moms-to-be

Kareena Kapoor Khan

Masala Lab

Krish Ashok

Sach Kahun Toh

Neena Gupta

Stories I Must Tell: The Emotional Life of an Actor

Kabir Bedi

The Stranger in the Mirror

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

Unfinished: A Memoir

Priyanka Chopra Jonas

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