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Twinkle Khanna,Chetan Bhagat, Amish Tripathi, and Shilpa Shetty make a star-studded shortlist for the 14th Raymond Crossword Book Award

The Raymond Crossword Book Award, India’s first and most prestigious Book Award, recognizes and rewards the best of Indian writing & Indian authors. 
 
Over the years, the awards have been equated to the Pulitzer and Booker, and are a definitive,veritable platform for Indian authors.
 
The awardees have always had, or risen to stature in the world of literature. 
 
This year, the Award has gone through a makeover, with ten categories and a lifetime achievement award. A total of 11 awards will be given on November 29, in the following three categories.
 
1. Popular Awards
 
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Biography
Business & Management 
Health & Fitness 
Children 
 
2. Jury Awards:
 
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Translation
Children
 
3. Lifetime Achievement Award .
 
Kinjal Shah, CEO Crossword Bookstores says, “Its that time of the year, when the whole publishing industry in India comes forward as one family to recognise its own stars. Yes, its exciting that we do have a star-studded shortlist this year and we are looking forward to seeing which author wins the most popular votes.”
 
Also interesting is the Lifetime Achievement Category and readers are guessing who that one will be.
 
About Crossword Bookstores. 
With the tagline ‘educate, entertain, enlighten’, Crossword Bookstores is India’s largest retailer of books. With 91stores across the country. Crossword Bookstores endeavours to spread knowledge & inculcate the habit of reading.
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POPULAR AWARD Shortlist
Title Author Publisher Description shortlist
Half girlfriend BHAGAT CHETAN Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Fiction
Scion of ikshvaku TRIPATHI AMISH Westland Books Pvt. Ltd. Fiction
Your dreams are mine now SINGH RAVINDER Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd Fiction
World’s best boyfriend DATTA DURJOY Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd Fiction
Mumbai avengers. ZAIDI HUSSAIN Harper Collins India (Vendor) Fiction
       
13 steps to bloody good luck SANGHI ASHWIN Westland (PUB) INR Non Fictio
Mrs funnybones KHANNA TWINKLE Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd NF
Something happened on the way MURTY SUDHA Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd NF
My gita (devdutt pattanaik) DEVDUTT Rupa (Pub) NF
Aarushi (avirook sen) AVIROOK SEN Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd NF
       
Chanakya in you RADHAKRISHNAN Jaico Book House Pvt Ltd B&M
Dream with your eyes open SCREWVALA RONNI Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. B&M
Arise awake BANSAL RASHMI Westland Books Pvt. Ltd. B&M
Pandeymonium: piyush pandey PANDEY PIYUSH Portfolio Publishing (INR) B&M
The success sutra : an indian PATTANAIK DEVD Aleph Publisher B&M
       
Playing it my way – my autobi. TENDULKAR SACHI Hachette Book Group (INR) BIO
Msd the man  the leader GHOSH BISWADEEP Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. BIO
Rajesh khanna :the fallen sup USMAN YASSER Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd BIO
Born again on the mountain SINHA ARUNIMA Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd BIO
Being Salman KHAN JASIM Viking (INR) BIO
       
       
No one has to know anti-ageing PAI JAMUNA Harper Collins India (Vendor) Health & Fit
The great indian diet SHILPA SHETTY & Ebury Press (INR) Health & Fit
Total fitness the leena mogre MOGRE LEENA Ebury Press (INR) Health & Fit
Being mortal medicine and what ATUL GAWANDE Hamish Hamilton (inr) Health & Fit
No one has to know anti-ageing PAI JAMUNA Harper Collins India (Vendor) Health & Fit
Body Godess Payal Gidwani Random House  
       
Reignited KALAM ABDUL A.P Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd KIDS
The magic of the lost temple MURTHY SUDHA Puffin Books (PUB) INR KIDS
Pashu PATTANAIK DEVD Puffin (inr) KIDS
Uncle aunts and elephants BOND RUSKIN Puffin (inr) KIDS
Gita: for children PAI ROOPA Hachette Book Group (INR) KIDS
 
JURY AWARD SHORTLIST:
Translations Shortlist
The Sun That Rose from the Earth written and translated by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
Island of Lost Shadows by E. Santosh Kumar translated by P.N. Venugopal 
In a land far from home by Syed Mujtaba Ali translated by Nazes Afroz
Fence by Ila Arab Mehta translated by Rita Kothari
Hundreds of Streets to the Palace Lights by S Diwakar translated by Susheela Punitha
Farewell, Mahatma by Devibharathi translated by N. Kalyan Raman
 
 
Fiction Shortlist
Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh
Hadal by CP Surendran
Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy
The Black Hill by Mamang Dai
The Cosmopolitans by Anjum Hasan
 
 
Non-Fiction Shortlist
Ahmedabad: A City in the World by Amrita Shah
Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India by Akshaya Mukul 
No one Else by Siddharth Dube
Seasons of Trouble by Rohini Mohan 
The Ivory Throne by Manu S. Pillai
The Spirit of Indian Painting by B.N.Goswami
 
 
Children’s Books Shortlist
Adventure on Wheels by Prashant Pinge
Bookasura by Arundhati Venkatesh, Illustrated by Priya Kuriyan
Our Incredible Cow by Mahasweta Devi, Illustrated by Ruchi Shah
Our Nana was a Nutcase by Ranjit Lal
Talking of Muskaan by Himanjali Sankar

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