It's been the Hutch Crossword Book Award; it's been the Vodafone Crossword Book Award; apparently this week it's The Economist Crossword Book Award (though The Economist takes no credit and makes no mention of lending their name (and, presumably, financial support) at their own site ...), and this leading Indian literary prize has now announced the shortlists for this year's prize, in English fiction, non-, and translation (they apparently also hand out an award for best kids' book, but don't (bother to ?) reveal the shortlist for that); there's also a 'popular' prize, "chosen by avid-readers".
The site is ... not very informative (though apparently they are working on that ...), and I couldn't find the longlist data there, but fortunately IBN live listed all the longlisted titles (hurrah !) -- 137 works of fiction (dig some of those titles !), 105 of English non-, 59 children's titles ... and a mere 28 works in translation. (How is it possible that only so few works of translation were submitted/considered ? Is that really all there was last year in India ?)
The site is ... not very informative (though apparently they are working on that ...), and I couldn't find the longlist data there, but fortunately IBN live listed all the longlisted titles (hurrah !) -- 137 works of fiction (dig some of those titles !), 105 of English non-, 59 children's titles ... and a mere 28 works in translation. (How is it possible that only so few works of translation were submitted/considered ? Is that really all there was last year in India ?)