Women AutHer Awards meddelar långlistorna för 2026 i fyra kategorier

Långlistorna för Women AutHer Awards 2026 tillkännagavs den 8 mars och omfattar åtta böcker vardera i kategorierna skönlitteratur, facklitteratur, barnlitteratur och debut. Priserna, som arrangeras av The Times of India och JK Paper, belönar indiska kvinnliga författare med prispengar på Rs 1 lakh till vinnarna. Vinnarna utses av jurydomare, medan kategorin folkets val avgörs genom online-röstning.

Långlistorna för Women AutHer Awards 2026 avslöjades den 8 mars, söndag, och belyser framstående verk av indiska kvinnliga författare. Arrangerade av The Times of India i samarbete med JK Paper täcker priserna fyra huvudkategorier: skönlitteratur, facklitteratur, barnlitteratur och debut. Varje kategori innehåller åtta böcker, med vinnare utvalda av expertjuror. Kategorin folkets val avgörs via online-röstning, och det finns även en manuskriptkategori. Vinnande författare får Rs 1 lakh, som delas lika vid gemensamma vinnare. In skönlitteraturkategorin ingår följande långlistade böcker: Blood Caste av Shylashri Shankar, The Comeback av Annie Zaidi, Real Life av Amrita Mahale, Rising Sons av Kavery Nambisan, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny av Kiran Desai, The Remnants of a Rebellion av Ponnu Elizabeth Mathew, The Courtesan, Her Lover and I av Tarana Husain Khan och The Guardian and a Thief av Megha Majumdar. I facklitteratur: In the Beginning There Was Bombay Duck: A Food History of Mumbai av Pronoti Datta, Rubber: The Social and Natural History of an Indispensable Substance av Vidya Rajan, A Man For All Seasons: The Life Of KM Panikkar av Narayani Basu, The Maker of Filmmakers: How Jagat Murari and FTII Changed Indian Cinema Forever av Radha Chadha, Scamlands: Inside the Asian Empire of Fraud That Preys on the World av Snigdha Poonam, India’s First Radicals: Young Bengal and the British Empire av Rosinka Chaudhuri, Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya av Anuradha Roy och Farmers Protest!: A Movement for Our Times av Namita Waikar. Debutkategorin innehåller: Invisible in Plain Sight: Voices From the By-Lanes of Kamathipura av Swati Pandey, Lifequake: A Story of Hope and Humanity av Tarini Mohan, Lōal Kashmir: Love and Longing in a Torn Land av Mehak Jamal, The Cost of a Promised Afterlife: My Escape from a Controversial Religious Cult in India av Priyamvada Mehra, Tales from the Dawn-Lit Mountains av Subi Taba, What Women Want: Understanding The Female Voter in Modern India av Ruhi Tewari, The Ex-Daughters of Tolstoy House av Arunima Tenzin Tara och Sheher Mein Gaon: Culture, Conflict and Change in the Urban Villages of Delhi av Ekta Chauhan. Långlistan för barnlitteratur inkluderar: Sneaker Paati av Anita Nair, Uncoded: A Technological History of Independent India av Meghaa Gupta, A Demon in Dandi av Lavanya Karthik, History Unpacked: The Why, When and What of Ancient India av Saisudha Acharya, When Mummy Had Cancer av Priyanka Pandya Bhatt, Ganesh Haloi: Colours of Home av Likla Lall, Spotless: A Novel in Verse av Vibha Batra och Rain Holiday av Shreya Ramachandran. Dessa långlistor visar upp mångsidiga teman, från sociala historier och personliga berättelser till utforskningar av indisk kultur och politik, och understryker den livfulla mångfalden i kvinnors skrivande i Indien.

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