Malayalam poet V. Madhusoodanan Nair and Shashi Tharoor won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award, one of the highest literary award in the country. Madhusoodanan Nair won the award for Achan Pir... Read more
Among the 156 books nominated by libraries around the world for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award, Jasmine Days by Benyamin also makes it to the longlist. The winner receiving €10... Read more
K.Satchidanandan, the pioneer of modernism in Malayalam poetry will receive the Poet Laureate Award at the tenth edition of Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest. The writer and translato... Read more
Writer Anand has won this year’s Ezhuthachan Puraskaram, the highest literary award by the state government. Anand has been chosen for his overall contribution to Malayalam literature. His w... Read more
Margaret Atwood and Bernadine Evaristo jointly shared the 50th Booker Prize after the judges declared that they “explicitly flouted” the rules of the Booker prize which says th... Read more
One Hell of a Lover by Unni R and Pulayathara by Paul Chirakkarode have been shortlisted for the Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Prize under fiction. The collection of nine... Read more
PEN America expressed ‘’deep regret’’ over the Swedish Academy’s choice of Peter Handke for the Nobel Prize for Literature 2019. In a statement issued, PEN America stated, that the award wil... Read more
The Swedish Academy has chosen the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and the Austrian author Peter Handke as the winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature for the years 2018 and 2019 respectively.... Read more
India’s richest literary prize, JCB Prize for literature has announced its shortlist for the year 2019. Launched in 2018, the prize is aimed at recognizing a distinguished work of fiction by... Read more
Federation of Indian Publishers (FIP) awards were presented to DC Books on 28 September 2019 for excellence in book production. DC Books has bagged thirteen awards in various categori... Read more
