Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize 2022 Winners
Best Fiction
The Immortal King Rao
Vauhini Vara
Fourth Estate
Best Non Fiction
Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India’s Lonely Young Women and The Search for Intimacy and Independence
Shrayana Bhattacharya
HarperCollins
Popular Choice
Open Book: Not Quite a Memoir
KubbraSait
HarperCollins
Best Cover Design
The Muslim Vanishes: A Play
Antra K
Penguin Viking
Best Children’s Book Fiction
Beauty is Missing
Priya Kuriyan
Pratham Books
Best Children’s Picture Book Illustration
Dugga
Janan Abir
The Little Dipper Publishing
Best Children’s Book Fiction
Maithili and the Minotaur: Web of Woe
C J Salamander
Penguin
Best Children’s Book Non-Fiction
Naturalist Ruddy
Rohan Chakravarty
Penguin
Fiction
Breaking Free
Harper Perennial
Qabar
Eka / Westland Books
The Immortal King Rao
4th Estate
The Wait and Other Stories
Penguin Vintage
Tomb of Sand
Penguin
Valli: A Novel
Harper Perennial
Breaking Free
Translated by N. Kalyan Raman
Harper Perennial
Crimson Spring: A Novel
Aleph
Ger-mi-na-tion
Red River
Lost, Hurt, Or in Transit Beautiful: Poems
Harper Collins
Qabar
Translated by Nisha Susan
Eka / Westland Books
The Blind Matriarch: A Novel
Penguin Viking
The Immortal King Rao
4th Estate
The Middle Finger
Simon and Schuster
The Odd Book Of Baby Names
Penguin Hamish Hamilton
The Wait and Other Stories
Translated by Xavier Cota
Penguin Vintage
Tomb of Sand
Translated by Daisy Rockwell
Penguin
Valli: A Novel
Translated by Jayasree Kalathil
Harper Perennial
Non-Fiction
Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh : India’s Lonely Young Women and The Search for Intimacy and Independence
Harper Collins
India, Bharat and Pakistan: The Constitutional Journey of a Sandwiched Civilization
Bloomsbury
Lords of the Deccan: Southern India from The Chalukyas and The Cholas
Juggernaut
The Gorakhpur Hospital Tragedy: A Doctor’s Memoir of a Deadly Medical Crisis
Pan Macmillan
The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
Penguin Allen Lane
Writer Rebel Soldier Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya
Penguin Vintage
Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh : India’s Lonely Young Women and The Search for Intimacy and Independence
Harper Collins
Humans of Covid: To Hell and Back
Juggernaut
India, Bharat and Pakistan: The Constitutional Journey of a Sandwiched Civilization
Bloomsbury
Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses
Penguin Viking
Lords of the Deccan: Southern India from The Chalukyas and The Cholas
Juggernaut
Not Just Cricket: A Reporter’s Journey Through Modern India
Harper Collins
The Gorakhpur Hospital Tragedy: A Doctor’s Memoir of a Deadly Medical Crisis
Pan Macmillan
The New BJP: Modi and The Making of the World’s Largest Political Party
Westland Books
The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
Penguin Allen Lane
Whole Number and Half Truths : What Data Can and Cannot Tell us About Modern India
Context / Westland Books
Whose Samosa is it Anyways: The Story of Where “Indian” Food Really Came From
Penguin Viking
Writer Rebel Soldier Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya
Penguin Vintage
Cover Design
Adam
Cover Design by Anubha Jain
Penguin Vintage
Chronicles of the Lost Daughters
Cover Design by DhakaYeah
Harper Collins
Ladies Tailor : A Novel
Cover Design by Giggling Monkey Studio
Harper Collins
Tears of the Begum : Stories of Survivors of the Uprising of 1857
Cover Design by Reya Ahmed
The Living Mountain : A Fable for our Times
Cover Design by Devangana Dash
Fourth Estate
The Muslim Vanishes : A Play
Cover design by Antra K
Children’s Fiction
Maithili and the Minotaur Web of Woe
Penguin
Misfit Madhu
Puffin
Pinkoo Shergill Pastry Chef
Scholastic
Savi and the Memory Keeper
Hachette
The Coward and The Sword
Harper Collins
The Ghost of Malabar
Harper Collins
Children’s Fiction
Maithili and the Minotaur Web of Woe
Penguin
Misfit Madhu
Puffin
Pinkoo Shergill Pastry Chef
Scholastic
Savi and the Memory Keeper
Hachette
The Coward and The Sword
Harper Collins
The Ghost of Malabar
Harper Collins
Children’s Non-Fiction
Amma, Take me to The Taj Mahal
Puffin
Cadet No. 1 and Other Amazing Women in the Armed Forces
Harper Collins
India’s Freedom Story
Harper Collins
Journey to the Edge of the Earth: A True Adventure
Penguin
Naturalist Ruddy
Penguin
Up the Mountains of India: A Fun, Fact-filled Trek Across the Country’s Major Ranges
Hachette
Picture Book – Story
Are Your Emotions Like Mine
AdiDev Press
Beauty is Missing
Pratham Books
I am so Much More that the Colour of my Skin
Harper Collins
Many Colours of Us
Tulika
Paati’s Rasam
Karadi Tales
The Boy Who Wore Bangles
Karadi Tales
Picture Book – Illustrations
A Full Circle
Harper Design
Dugga
Pratham Books
My Upside Down World
Pickle Yolk
Maithili and the Minotaur: Web of Woe
Penguin
The Theatre of Ghosts
Pratham Books
We are the Dancing Forest
Popular Choice
Abhimanyu
Hope: Wisdom to Survive in a Hopeless World
Juggernaut
Open Book: Not Quite a Memoir
HarperCollins
The 7 Sins of Being a Mother 2021
Juggernaut
Unsung: Poems
Penguin eBury Press