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Follow on Google News | idbi Crossword Book Award- Popular Award NominationsBy: WizSpk The Popular Award Nominations have been announced considering the sales of the books and quantity of the books sold in the publishing year January 2012 to March 2013. Like other categories the Popular Award does not have a jury who awards the Best Book & Author. The Popular Award is given by readers who vote for their favourite author and book. Voting is done through both an online and offline mode. For online voting readers can log on to www.crossword.in (http://goo.gl/ Popular Award Nominations: 1. What Young India Wants by Chetan Bhagat (Rupa Publications) 2. Dongri to Dubai by S Hussain Zaidi (Roli Books) 3. The Day I Stopped Drinking Milk by Sudha Murty (Penguin Books India) 4. Poor Little Rich Slum by Rashmi Bansal (Westland Books) 5. F?@k Knows by shailendra Singh (Rupa Publications) 6. The Oath of the Vayuputras by Amish Tripathi (Westland Books) 7. The Bankster by Ravi Subramanian (Rupa Publications) 8. The Krishna Key by Ashwin Sanghi (Westland Books) 9. Asura by Anand Neelkantan (Leadstart Publishing) 10. Those Pricey Thakur Girls by Anuja Chauhan (Harper Collins India) The IDBI Crossword ‘Popular Award ‘offers readers an opportunity to vote for their favourite book from the list of best-selling books published last year. These books are independent of the shortlisted books across the other categories and are purely selected based on their sales volume across all Crossword Bookstores in that particular year. The Crossword Book Award has now completed 12 years of rewarding the best works in Indian literature across categories. Like every year the Shortlist of Books nominated in 4 categories Fiction, Non Fiction, Children’s & Translation will be released on 19th November (Tuesday) 6.30pm at Alliance Francaise New Delhi. The Shortlist Ceremony will be followed by a panel discussion on the Topic of ‘Romance, Love, Violence’. The Final Award Ceremony takes place in Mumbai in the first week of December. This year the IDBI Crossword Book Award 2013 followed the financial year module and considered entries published in India from 1st January 2012 to 31st March 2013. This year we considered 15 months for the entry process and from next year onwards entries from April 2013 to March 2014 will be considered eligible. About the Awards IDBI Crossword Book Award is the only Indian award that recognizes and rewards good writing and also actively promotes Indian authors and their books. Last year the Award received 329 valid entries in the above mentioned categories and this year we have received 552 valid entries, thus making the awards representative of the best of contemporary Indian literature. When the book awards were launched in 1998, there was one cash prize of Rs. 2 lakhs for the best original work of fiction in English by an Indian author, and it was won by Allan Sealy for The Everest Hotel. In 1999, a new category was added Indian Language Fiction Translation into English and the cash prize was increased to 3 lakhs in each category. In 2005, two more award categories were added English Non-Fiction, as well as the Popular Award. In 2009 award for Indian Childrens writing was introduced thus making it the only Indian literary award that rewards authors across 5 different categories. Each award carries a cash prize of Rs. 3 lakhs, a trophy and a citation. In the case of The Economist Crossword Translation Award, the author and the translator share the prize money equally. The Popular award has a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh & the trophy. Past Winners Crossword Fiction Award 2011- Anuradha Roy for ‘The Folded Earth’ 2010- Omair Ahmad for ‘Jimmy the Terrorist” 2009- Kalpana Swaminathan for ‘Venus Crossing’ 2008 - Amitav Ghosh for ‘Sea of Poppies’ & Neel Mukherjee for ‘Past Continuous’ 2007 - Usha K. R. for ‘A Girl and a River’ 2006 - Vikram Chandra for ‘Sacred Games’ 2005 - Salman Rushdie for ‘Shalimar the Clown’ 2004 - Amitav Ghosh for ‘The Hungry Tide’ 2000 - Jamyang Norbu for ‘The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes’ 1999 - Vikram Seth for ‘An Equal Music’ 1998 - I. Allan Sealy for ‘The Everest Hotel’ Crossword Translation Award 2011-Anita Agnihotri, Arunava Sinha for ‘17’ & Narayan, Catherine Thankamma for Kocharethi: The Araya Woman 2010- N. S. Madhavan, Rajesh Rajmohan for ‘Litanies of Dutch Battery’ 2009- Sara Joseph for ‘Othappu’ 2008 - Manohar Shyam Joshi / Ira Pande for ‘T'Ta Professor’ 2007 - Sankar / Arunava Sinha for ‘Chowringhee’ 2006 - C.S. Lakshmi (Ambai) / Lakshmi Holmstrom for ‘In a Forest, A Deer’ and M. Mukundan / A.J. Thomas for ‘Kesavan's Lamentations’ 2005 - Krishna Sobti, Reema Anand & Meenakshi Swami for ‘The Heart has its Reasons’ 2004 - Chandrasekhar Rath, Jatindra Nayak for ‘Astride the Wheel (Yantrarudha)’ 2000 - Bama, Lakshmi Holmstrom for ‘Karukku’ 1999 - M. Mukundan, Gita Krishnankutty for ‘On The Banks of The Mayyazhi’ Crossword Non-Fiction Award 2011- Aman Sethi for ‘A Free Man’ 2010-Sunanda K. Datta – Ray for ‘Looking East To Look West’ 2009- Rajni Bakshi for ‘Bazaars, Conversations & Freedom’ 2008 - Basharat Peer for ‘Curfewed Night’ 2007 - William Dalrymple for ‘The Last Mughal’ 2006 - Vikram Seth for ‘Two Lives’ 2005 - Suketu Mehta for ‘Maximum City: Bombay Lost & Found’ Crossword Popular Award 2011- Ravi Subramanian for ’The Incredible Banker’ 2010- Ashwin Sanghi for ‘Chanakya’ 2009- Rajni Bakshi for ‘Bazaars, Conversations & Freedom’ 2008 - Pallavi Aiyar for ‘Smoke and Mirrors: An Experience of China’ 2007 - Namita Devidayal for ‘The Music Room’ 2006 - Kiran Desai for ‘The Inheritance of Loss’ 2005 - Rahul Bhattacharya for ‘Pundits from Pakistan: On tour with India 2003-04’ Crossword Children’s Award 2011- No children’s award was given 2010-Ranjit Lal for ‘Faces in the Water’ 2009- Siddhartha Sarma for ‘The Grasshopper’ End
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