Valley of Words Book Awards announces its 2025 shortlists across eight categories

The Valley of Words Book Awards 2025 has announced its shortlists across eight categories. The winners will be announced at the Valley of Words Literature and Arts Festival to be held in Dehradun on October 25 and 26 and will receive a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh and a trophy.

For each category, the final shortlist of five books was narrowed down from a longlist of ten. The shortlisted titles of the VoW Book Awards 2025 are:

English Nonfiction

• Ananda: An Exploration of Cannabis in India, Karan Madhok

• Engineering a Nation: The Life and Career of M Visvesvaraya, Aparajith Ramnath

• Iconic Trees of India: 75 Natural Wonders, S Natesh

• Rukhmabai: The Life and Times of a Child Bride Turned Rebel-Doctor, Sudhir Chandra

• This Land We Call Home: The Story of a Family, Caste, Conversions and Modern India, Nusrat Jafri

English Fiction

• Border Crossers, Bhaskar Roy

• Island, Sujit Saraf

• Never Never Land, Namita Gokhale

• Swallowing the Sun, Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri

• Hill Songs of Love and Longing, Bijoya Sawian

English Translation

• Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada, Shahu Patole, translated from the Marathi by Bhushan Kargaonkar

• Lavanyadevi, Kusum Khemani, translated from the Hindi by Banibrata Mahanta

• Ten Days of the Strike, Sandipan Chattopadhyay, translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha

• A Temple of No Gods, Manav Kaul, translated from the Hindi by Sayari Debnath

• White Blood, Nanak Singh, translated from the Punjabi by Dilraj Singh Suri

Hindi Nonfiction

• Khaki Mein Sthitpragya, Anil Raturi

• Pathik Mein Aravali Ka, Bhanwar Meghwanshi

• Bidaay De Maa!, Sudhir Vidyarthi

• Hampi: Utkarsh Se Apkarsh Tak, Tapas Chakraborty

• Himalaya Ka Itihas, Madan Chandra Bhatt

Hindi Fiction

• Atar Duniya Mein Kya Hasil, Pratyaksha

• Kandho Par Ghar, Pragya

• Zoya Desai...

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