The shortlists for the best Indian literary fiction and non-fiction work were also announced.
Half the Night is Gone by Amitabha Bagchi, A Day in the Life by Anjum Hasan, All the Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy, Requiem in Raga Janki by Neelum Saran Gour, Poonachi by Perumal Murugan (Translated from Tamil by N. Kalyan Raman) and The Aunt Who Wouldn’t Die by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (Translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha) were the works shortlisted in the fiction segment. In the non-fiction segment, a new addition this year, Interrogating My Chandal Life by Manoranjan Byapari, The Bengalis by Sudeep Chakravarti, Remnants of a Partition by Aanchal Malhotra, Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature by Jairam Ramesh and The Most Dangerous Place by Srinath Raghavan made it to the shortlist.
Source : https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/shortlists-announced/article25222871.ece
