Bangalore Literature Festival 2021 will be held on 18 & 19 December 2021 at Bangalore International Centre (BIC) Domlur, Bengaluru. The 10th edition of Bengaluru city’s flagship annual literary fest is all set to attract bookworms and bibliophiles from India and abroad.
Deemed as India’s largest independent and community-funded literary conclave, Bangalore Lit Fest 2021 (#blrlitfest) will be a Hybrid affair with a fully-fledged in-person event at BIC and virtual live stream on Zoom.
| Event | Bangalore Literature Festival 2021 |
| Event Date | 18 December 2021 (Sat) 19 December 2021 (Sun) |
| Venue | Bangalore International Centre (BIC) 7, 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560071 |
| Timing | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM |
| Website | bangaloreliteraturefestival.org |
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The registration for the 2021 BlrLitFest event is yet to be open (please check out official website for updated info) but the “Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival (AGBLF) Book Prize Nominees 2021, shortlisted under different categories is out now.
The “Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival (AGBLF) Book Prize” was Instituted in 2015, and this year, this prestigious annual award will be presented under 7 categories: Fiction (English), Non-Fiction (English), Popular Choice, Best Cover Design and 2 new categories instituted in 2021 – Best Young Adult Book and Best Children’s Picture Book. A Literary Achievement Award in Kannada Language is also presented.
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Table of Contents
AGBLF BOOK PRIZE 2021 NOMINEES – POPULAR CHOICE CATEGORY
| BOOK (Publisher) | AUTHOR |
| Kareena Kapoor Khan’s Pregnancy Bible (Juggernaut) | Kareena Kapoor Khan and Aditi Shah Bhimjyani |
| Masala Lab (Penguin books) | Krish Ashok |
| Sach Kahun Toh (Ebury Press) | Neena Gupta |
| Stories I Must Tell (Westland) | Kabir Bedi |
| The Stranger in the Mirror (Rupa) | Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra with Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta |
| Unfinished (Penguin Books) | Priyanka Chopra Jonas |
AGBLF BOOK PRIZE 2021 NOMINEES – YOUNG ADULT CATEGORY
| BOOK (Publisher) | AUTHOR |
| It Has No Name (Red Panda) | Payal Dhar |
| Mahabharata for Children (Juggernaut) | By Arshia Sattar and illustrated by Sonali Zohra |
| Saira Zariwala is Afraid (Harper Collins) | Shabnam Minwalla |
| The Nameless God (Red Panda) | Savie Karnel |
| The Secret Life of Debbie G (Harper Collins) | Vibha Batra and Kalyani Ganapathy |
| Unfair (Puffin India) | Rasil Ahuja |
AGBLF BOOK PRIZE 2021 NOMINEES – COVER DESIGN CATEGORY
| BOOK (Publisher) | COVER DESIGN BY | AUTHOR |
| A God at the Door (Harper Collins) | Bonita Vaz-Shimray | Tishani Doshi |
| Bene Appétit (Harper Collins) | Amit Malhotra & Saurav Das | Esther David |
| Desi Delicacies (Picador) | Bhavi Mehta | Claire Chambers |
| Shadow Craft (Bloomsbury) | Kapil Gupta | Gayathri Prabhu & Nikhil Govind |
| The Oracle of Karuthupuzha (Aleph Books) | Bena Sareen | Manu Bhattathiri |
| What We Know About Her (Context Books) | Bhavya Kumar | Krupa Ge |
AGBLF BOOK PRIZE 2021 NOMINEES – CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOK CATEGORY
| BOOK (Publisher) | AUTHOR (ILLUSTRATOR) |
| Asamo, is that You? (Pratham Books) | Canato Jimo & Ogin Nayam |
| Mermaids in the Moonlight (Westland) | Sharanya Manivannan |
| Sometimes Mama, Sometimes Papa (India Puffin) | Nandini Nayar (Upamanyu Bhattacharyya) |
| The Girl who Loved to Sing (Duckbill Books) | Lavanya Karthik |
| The Hungry Little Sky Monster (Juggernaut) | Rohini Nilekani (Megha Punater) |
| Tomatoes for Neela (Viking Books) | Padma Lakshmi (Juana Martinez-Neal) |
Last year in 2020, The AGBLF was awarded under 5 categories and the winner in respective categories were:
- “Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line” by Deepa Anappara (Fiction)
- “The Death Script” by Ashutosh Bhardwaj (Non Fiction)
- “Made in India: A Memoir” by Milind Soman with Roopa Pai (Popular Choice)
- “Rising Heat” Cover design by Ahlawat Gunjan (Cover Design)
- “Vaidehi” aka Janaki Srinivasa Murthy is awarded Literary Achievement in Kannada