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The Kalinga Literary Festival announced its 2024 English-language Book Awards longlists on January 13, 2025. The lists cover fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children’s literature, business, translation and debut books. The announcement also mentioned separate Book Prizes for Hindi, Sanskrit and Odia books.
The lists below reproduce the titles, authors, translators where specified, and publishers reported in the announcement. Longlist inclusion is not a shortlist placement or a win. The 2024 label refers to the award cycle; the announcement itself appeared in January 2025.
Fiction
- Red River — Somnath Batabyal, Context
- Mother India — Prayaag Akbar, Harper Collins India
- Lorenzo Searches for the Meaning of Life — Upamanyu Chatterjee, Speaking Tiger Books
- Loot — Tania James, Penguin
- The Girl with the Seven Lives — Vikas Swarup, Simon and Schuster India
- The Enclave — Rohit Manchanda, Harper Collins India
- Beneath the Devil Tree: Malabar 1921 — Anjana Varma, Vitasta
- Devadasi — Sangeeta Bahadur, Parchment Publications
Nonfiction
- Gods, Guns, and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity — Manu S Pillai, Penguin India
- Tipu Sultan: The Saga of Mysore’s Interregnum (1760–1799) — Vikram Sampath, Penguin India
- Iru: The Remarkable Life of Irawati Karve — Urmilla Deshpande and Thiago Pinto Barbosa, Speaking Tiger Books
- The Jallianwala Bagh Journals — Sarmistha Dutta Gupta, Jadavpur University Press
- Imperial Games in Tibet — Dilip Sinha, Pan Macmillan India
- The Sherpa Trail: Stories from Darjeeling and Beyond — Nandini Purandare and Deepa Balsavar, Roli Books
- The Diary of Manu Gandhi (1946–1948) — Tridip Suhrud, Oxford University Press
- Rukhmabai: The Life and Times of a Child Bride Turned Rebel-Doctor — Sudhir Chandra, Pan Macmillan India
Poetry
- Yes, There Will Be Singing — Hamraaz, Westland
- I Don’t Love You Anymore — Rithvik Singh, Penguin India
- I’ll Have It Here — Jeet Thayil, HarperCollins India
- The Dust Draws Its Face on the Wind — Avinash Shrestha, translated from Nepali by Rohan Chhetri, HarperCollins India
- All These Streets We’ve Known By Heart — Siddharth Dasgupta, Red River Press
- Freerain — Easterine Kire, Penguin India
- How to Love in Sanskrit — Anusha Rao and Suhas Mahesh, HarperCollins India
- The Notbook of Kabir: Thinner than Water, Fiercer than Fire — Anand, Penguin India
Debut book
- The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown Indian — Neha Dixit, Juggernaut
- Glass Bottom — Sonali Prasad, Pan Macmillan India
- Girls Who Stray — Anisha Lalvani, Bloomsbury India
- The Lucky Ones: A Memoir — Zara Chaudhary, Westland
- The Foresighted Ambedkar — Anurag Bhaskar, Penguin India
- Code Dependent — Madhumita Murgia, Picador (Pan Macmillan)
- Chronicle of an Hour and a Half — Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari, Westland
Translation
- Maria, Just Maria — Sandhya Mary, translated from Malayalam by Jayasree Kalathil, HarperCollins India
- The Solitude of a Shadow — Devibharathi, translated from Tamil by N Kalyan Raman, HarperCollins India
- Ten Days of the Strike: Selected Stories — Sandipan Chattopadhyay, translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha, HarperCollins India
- Our City That Year — Geetanjali Shree, translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell, Penguin India
- Boy Unloved — Damodar Mauzo, translated from Konkani by Jerry Pinto, Speaking Tiger Books
- Limited/Unlimited — Sankar, translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha, Bloomsbury India
- The Day the Earth Bloomed — Manoj Kuroor, translated from Malayalam by J Devika, Bloomsbury India
- The Essential Ghalib — Anisur Rahman, HarperCollins India
Business books
- Digital Fortunes: A Value Investor’s Guide to the New Economy — Smarak Swain, Bloomsbury India
- Capitalism to Peopleism: Inspiring a Leadership Transformation — Ravi Chaudhry, Simon and Schuster India
- Amrut – the Great Churn: The Global Story of India’s First Single Malt — Sriram Devatha, Westland
- Lilliput Land: How Small is Driving India’s Mega Consumption Story — Rama Bijapurkar, Penguin India
- The Tanishq Story — CK Venkataraman, Juggernaut
- Dharmanomics: An Indigenous and Sustainable Economic Model — Sriram Balasubramanian, Bloomsbury India
- Insightful Inc.: How to Build an Insightful and Consumer-centric Organization — Manish Makhijani, Jaico Publishing House
- Let’s Talk Legacy — Monika Halan, HarperCollins India
Children’s literature
- The Mystery of the Missing Geometry Boxes — Vidya Varadarajan, Scholastic India
- The Boy with a Hundred Questions — Nalini Ramachandran, HarperCollins India
- Why the Apple Falls — Swagata Deb and Sandipan Deb, Juggernaut
- Laxmi Panda: The Story of Netaji’s Youngest Spy — Savie Karnel, Westland
- The Great Indian Nature Trail — Rohan Chakravarty and Bijal Vachharajani, Juggernaut
- Save the Solar System with Nye and Friends — Tanya Gawdi, Rupa Publications
- The Couch Potato Who Said Ouch and Other Funny Stories — Khyrunnisa A, Westland
How the announcement fits the award cycle
Scroll reported that the shortlist was due on January 30 and winners were to be revealed on February 15 in New Delhi. Those are dates from the January 13 announcement, not confirmation that the events took place or that particular books were shortlisted or won. The available reporting does not establish the eventual shortlist or winners. The English-language lists are also distinct from the separately mentioned Book Prizes for Hindi, Sanskrit and Odia books.
The detailed list and schedule were reported by Scroll on January 13, 2025. The Kalinga Literary Festival’s Book Awardees 2024 page provides festival context but is not a complete copy of these English-language longlists.
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