November 2012

The 11th Economist Crossword Book Award was declared on 18 October 2012 at Mumbai. The Folded Earth and A Free Man-a nonfiction book, written by Anuradha Roy and Aman Sethi respectively were declared among winners of the 11th Economist Crossword Book Award. The Folded Earth was declared winner in English Indian Fiction Category, whereas, A Free Man won the award in the English Non-Fiction Category for 2011.

Few more books that won awards in different categories were:

• English Translation by Arunava Sinha of a book on short stories, 17 written by Anita Agnihotri and The Araya Woman written by Narayan and Translated by Catherine Thankamma were declared joint winners of the award for Indian Language Translation.
• The Incredible Banker written by Ravi Subramanian fetched the Popular Award

Overall, there were 330 entries of the books published in 2011 for the awards. Renowned writer Sudha Murthy distributed the Prizes on 18 October 2012.

ABOUT THE CROSSWORD BOOK AWARD

The Award is among the prestigious literary awards in India, which recognizes the best Indian Writings and rewards them to make sure that the merit works reach easily reaches to wider audience group. The Awards are given in different categories and it includes Crossword Fiction Award, Crossword Non-Fiction Award, Crossword Translation Award, Crossword Children’s Award and Crossword Popular Award. The Prize for Non-Fiction, Fiction, Translation and Children’s writing carries an amount of 3 lakh rupees and a citation and a trophy. The Popular Award winner author gets a cash prize of 1 lakh rupees and a certificate.

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