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

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

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

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

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

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

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