What is Delhi Reading? JK Auther Awards 2024

JK Auther Awards 2024

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This post is part of the dedicated series on books called “What is Delhi Reading?” where i share my insights on book launches and author discussions which i attend in Delhi.

JK Auther Awards : Season 5 at Taja Palace Hotel, New Delhi

The 2024 Season 5 of the Awards took place on 17th March at Taj Palace Hotel, Diplomatic Enclave, New Delhi. I attended the award ceremony along with budding women writers, politicians, bureaucrats and famous personalities from the publishing world.

JK Auther Awards : The Categories and Winners

The awards had 4 categories – fiction, non-fiction, children’s literature, and debut. There was a separate category for lifetime achievement award, a prize in the popular choice category (based on an online poll), and a best manuscript award. The awardees came from publishers like HarperCollins, Penguin Random House India, Juggernaut, Hachette India, Aleph Book Company, Readomania, among others.

Given below is a list of all women “Auther” awardees for the year 2024:

• Best Author Fiction – Tashan Mehta for Mad Sisters of Esi and Sonora Jha for The Laughter
• Best Non-fiction Author – Sudha Bharadwaj for Phansi Yard: My Year with theWomen of Yerawada
• Best Debut – Rajasree Variyar for The Daughters of Madurai and Neerja Chowdhury for How Prime Ministers Decide
• Best Children’s Author – Devika Cariapa for A Children’s History of India in 100 Objects and Shabnam Minwalla for Zen
• Popular Choice Award with maximum online votes – Sahar Zaman for Talat Mahmood: A Definitive Biography (self-published)
• Lifetime Achievement Award – Sahitya Akademi Winner and Veteran Indian novelist Mridula Garg
• Best Manuscript – Vibha Sangeeta Krishnakumar for Kaushalya
• Certificate of Excellence – Ananya Raghu for Havoc

It was a delight to meet Ms. Tashan Mehta, author of Mad Sisters of Esi. A sweetheart to the core, Tashan resides in Goa and also extended a warm invitation to me to visit her there 🙂