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Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari won the 2024 Crossword Book Awards’ Jury Fiction prize for Chronicle of an Hour and a Half; Karthik Muralidharan won Jury Business and Management for Accelerating India’s Development. Jayasree Kalathil translated Maria Just Maria, by Sandhya Mary, which won Jury Translations. The awards ceremony took place in Mumbai on December 8, 2024.
Jury award winners
The Crossword Book Awards named winners across five jury categories. Scroll reported the results on December 9, 2024. Each category had a separate jury.
| Category | Winner and book | Publisher or book credit |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction | Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari, Chronicle of an Hour and a Half | Westland |
| Nonfiction | Zeyad Masroor Khan, City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh | HarperCollins India |
| Children’s Books | Shabnam Minwalla, Zen; and Andaleeb Wajid, The Henna Start-Up | Duckbill Books; the report spells the publisher DuckBill Books for Wajid’s title |
| Business and Management | Karthik Muralidharan, Accelerating India’s Development: A State-led Roadmap For Effective Governance | Penguin India |
| Translations | Sandhya Mary, Maria Just Maria, translated from Malayalam by Jayasree Kalathil | HarperCollins India |
The name “Jayasree Kalathil” in the award coverage refers to the translator, not the author of Maria Just Maria. The book is attributed to Sandhya Mary.
Popular Choice winners
Popular Choice awards were separate from the jury decisions. According to Scroll, readers determined these results by voting on the Crossword website.
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- Scroll reported a cash prize of Rs 50,000 for winning authors.
Who judged the jury categories?
Scroll named the category juries as follows:
- Fiction: Manjula Narayan, Prayaag Akbar and Somak Ghoshal.
- Nonfiction: TCA Raghavan, Anuradha Sengupta and Kaveree Bamzai.
- Translations: Arshia Sattar, Nandini Nair and Malashri Lal.
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The report does not give voter totals for Popular Choice or detailed judging criteria. For the category shortlist context, see Scroll’s announcement of the 2024 shortlists. The reported winners and award details appear in Scroll’s December 9, 2024 results report.
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