KLF Book Awards

The KLF Book Awards, founded in 2021, is a literary honor in India, presented and established by the Kalinga Literary Festival.[1] The awards are given in various categories including fiction and non-fiction books, poetry, Hindi language books, books in translation, Bhasa first book, business and strategic affairs books, environmental books, biographical and autobiographical books, children books, sports, lifestyle and emerging trend books.[2]

The KLF Book Awards
Awarded forcontribution to Indian literature
CountryIndia
Presented byKalinga Literary Festival
First awarded2021

History

The KLF Book Awards was established in 2021 by the Kalinga Literary Festival. The awards for the years 2020-21 were announced in September 2021,[3] and 47 authors were selected for the award.[4]

The awards are given in various categories including fiction and non-fiction books, poetry, Hindi language books, books in translation, Bhasa first book, business and strategic affairs books, environmental books, biographical and autobiographical books, children books, sports, lifestyle and emerging trend books.[3] The purpose of the award, according to festival director Rashmi Ranjan Parida, is "to contribute to debates and discourses in the national and global public sphere and encourage more thoughtful, reflective, unique and inspiring contributions".[3]

The awards for 2020-21 will be awarded at Kalinga Literary Festival which is set to be held from 10 to 12 December 2021 in Bhubaneswar.[4]

List of winners

2020-21

KLF Fiction Book of the Year Award[3][4]

  • Undertow, Jahnavi Barua
  • Betrayed by Hope: A Play on the Life of Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Namita Gokhale and Malashri Lal
  • The Begum and the Dastan, Tarana Husain Khan
  • The Vault of Vishnu, Ashwin Sanghi
  • Undercover in Bandipore, Ashok Kaul

KLF Non-fiction Book of the Year Award[3][4]

  • Princestan: How Nehru, Patel and Mountbatten Made India, Sandeep Bamzai
  • The New World Disorder, Shashi Tharoor & Samir Saran
  • Jugalbandi: The BJP Before Modi, Vinay Sitapati
  • The Great Hindu Civilisation: Achievement, Neglect, Bias and the Way Forward, Pavan K Varma
  • A Brief History of Mrdangam Makers, T M Krishna
  • The Death Script, Ashutosh Bhardwaj
  • Reporting India, Prem Prakash

KLF Poetry Book of the Year Award[3][4]

  • A Poem a Day, Gulzar
  • Kalidasa: Meghduta-The Cloud Messenger & Kalidasa: Ritusamhara-The Six Seasons (Jointly), Abhay K.[5]
  • From Castleford to Kathmandu, Greta Rana
  • Anek Pal aaur Mai, Basant Chaudhary

KLF Hindi Book of the Year Award[3][4]

KLF Book in Translation of the Year Award[3][4]

KLF Bhasa Award[3][4]

KLF Debut Book Award[3][4]

KLF Business Book of the Year Award[3][4]

KLF Diplomacy/Strategic Affairs Book of the Year Award[3][4]

  • The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World, S. Jaishankar
  • Powershift: India-China Relations in a Multipolar World, Zorawar Daulet Singh
  • Himalayan Challenge: India, China and the Quest for Peace, Subramanian Swamy

KLF Environmental Book of the Year Award[3][4]

KLF Women/Dalit/Tribal/Minorities Literature Award[3][4]

  • Harijan: A Novel, Gopinath Mohanty (tr. Bikram Das)
  • Makers of Modern Dalit History, Sudarshan Ramabadran and Guru Prakash Paswan
  • A Plate of White Marble (Shwet Patharer Thala) by Bani Basu (tr. Nandini Guha)
  • Ramvilas Paswan: Sankalp, Sahas aaur Sangharsh, Pradeep Srivastav
  • Sir Syed Ahmad Khan: Reason, Religion and Nation, Shafey Kidwai

KLF Biography/Autobiography Book of the Year Award[3][4]

  • His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama: An Illustrated Biography, Tenzin Geyche Tethong
  • Restless as Mercury: My Life as a Young Man Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Gopalkrishna Gandhi
  • Akhtari: The Life and Music of Begum Akhtar, Yatindra Mishra
  • Bharat Ke Pradhan Mantri, Rasheed Kidwai
  • The House of Jaipur: The Inside Story of India’s Most Glamorous Royal Family, John Zubrzycki

KLF Children Book of the Year Award[3][4]

KLF Sports Book of the Year Award[3][4]

KLF Lifestyle and Emerging Trend Book Award[3][4]

  • Eating in the Age of Dieting, Rujuta Diwekar

References
  1. "KLF Announces Titles For Book Awards 2020-21; From Amitav Ghosh To S Jaishankar, Check Out The Full List Here". Outlook India. 11 September 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  2. "Kalinga Literary Festival Book Awards 2020-21 announced". The Sunday Guardian. 11 September 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  3. "Kalinga Literature Festival Book Awards 2020-21 announced: Full list of selected titles". The Indian Express. 11 September 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  4. "Kalinga Literature Festival to ditch digital and go 'real' live in December". Telegraph India. 14 September 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  5. "Poet-diplomat Abhay K's translation of Kalidasa's 'Meghaduta', 'Ritusamhara' win KLF Poetry Book of the Year Award 2020-21". ANI News. 8 September 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
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