Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize 2025 Winners
Best Fiction
Deviants: The Queer Family Chronicles
Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari
Tranquebar (Westland Books)
Best Fiction
The Elsewhereans
Jeet Thayil
Harper Collins
Best Non Fiction
Rama Bhima Soma: Cultural Investigations into Modern Karnataka
Srikar Raghavan
Context
Popular Choice
The Commonsense Diet: Stop Overthinking Start Eating
Rujuta Diwekar
Juggernaut
Best Cover Design
Song Of The Asunam
C.G. Salamander, Cover Design: Rajiv Eipe
Harper Collins
Best Children’s Book Fiction
Giants
Huthuka Sumi
Harper Collins
Best Children’s Book Non-Fiction
History Unpacked: The Why, When and What of Ancient India
Saisudha Acharya
Duckbill
Best Children’s Picture Book Story
Go Go Flamingo
Devashish Makhija
Tulika
Best Children’s Picture Book Illustration
The Little Book of Indian Dogs
Chandrima Chatterjee
Harper Collins Children's Books
Fiction
Deviants: The Queer Family Chronicles
Tranquebar (Westland Books)
Silent Journeys
Translated by Anoop Prathapan
Penguin
The Dead Know Nothing
Penguin
The Elsewhereans
Harper Collins
The Tiger's Share
Hachette
Water Days
Tranquebar (Westland Books)
A Different Distance
Context
Ajita: A Novel
Westland
Deviants: The Queer Family Chronicles
Tranquebar (Westland Books)
On the Banks of Pampa
Translated by Purnima Tammireddy
Harper Collins
Qissa of Bibi in Black Burqa & Forty Men
Translated by Kathakali Jana
Antonym Publications
Silent Journeys
Translated by Anoop Prathapan
Penguin
The Dead Know Nothing
Penguin
The Elsewhereans
Harper Collins
The Tiger's Share
Hachette
Water Days
Tranquebar (Westland Books)
Non-Fiction
Of Men, Women and Witches
Translated by Sangeetha Puthiyedath
Juggernaut
Rama Bhima Soma: Cultural Investigations into Modern Karnataka
Context
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
4th Estate
Shattered Lands : Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Harper Collins
Vaccine Nation
Pan Macmillan
Why the Poor Don’t Kill Us: The Psychology of Indians
Aleph
Chasing a Conjecture: Inside the Mind of a Mathematician
Juggernaut
India: A Linguistic Civilization
Aleph
Of Men, Women and Witches
Translated by Sangeetha Puthiyedath
Juggernaut
OTP Please: Online Buyers, Sellers and Gig Workers in South Asia
Penguin
Platform Ticket: The Untold Stories of People Who Make Train Travel Possible
Penguin
Rama Bhima Soma: Cultural Investigations into Modern Karnataka
Context
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
4th Estate
Shattered Lands : Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Harper Collins
Vaccine Nation
Pan Macmillan
Why the Poor Don’t Kill Us: The Psychology of Indians
Aleph
Children’s Fiction
A Girl, a Tiger and a Very Strange Story
Puffin
Daisies in The Wild
Harper Collins
Giants
Harper Collins
Royal-ish : Lily's Adventures in Bagradoo
Harper Collins
The Last Dragoners of Bowbazaar
Westland
The Thief Of Taxila : A Silk Road Mystery
Talking Cub
Children’s Non-Fiction
From Sea to Sky: Hidden Stories of Nature's Science
Hachette
History Unpacked: The Why, When and What of Ancient India
Duckbill
India in Triangles: The Incredible Story of How India was Mapped and the Himalayas Measured
Puffin
The Great Indian Safari
Puffin
Tiger Slayer: The Extraordinary Story of Nur Jahan, Empress of India
Penguin
Uncoded: A Technological History of Independent India
Puffin
Children’s Picture Book Story
A Roof for Norbu
Snow Leopard Conservancy
Chasing Waters
Karadi Tales
Go Go Flamingo
Tulika
Putti Gets Glasses
Harivu Books
The Girl Who Wouldnt Stay Within the Lines
Daffodil Lane
The Pangolin Protectors
Pratham
Children’s Picture Book Story – Illustrations
And Yet You Shine: The Kohinoor Diamond, Colonization, And Resistance
Scholastic
A Tree in My Stomach
Big Beetle Books
Rain Perfume
Kalpvriksh
Sufi Humari Fufi
Eklavya
Tara Goes Aahhhhh
Harper Collins Children's Books
The Little Book of Indian Dogs
Harper Collins Children's Books
The Trickster: One Time I Wanted Two Moons
Katha
Cover Design
Loal Kashmir : Love and Longing in a Torn Land
4th Estate
Maa
Rupa
Song Of The Asunam
Harper Collins
The Whispering Mountains: Marvellous Folktales from the Himalayas
Puffin
Vaadivaasal - The Arena
Simon and Schuster
Popular Choice
A Book of Books
Harper Collins
Gods Guns & Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity
Penguin
The Chola Tigers: Avengers of Somnath
Harper Collins
The Commonsense Diet: Stop Overthinking Start Eating
Juggernaut
Too Good To Be True
Harper Collins