Vodafone Crossword Book Award 2008 July 23, 2009

Vodafone Crossword Book Award 2008. Shortlisted authors Neel Mukherjee, Manjula Padmanabhan, Anuradha Roy, Basharat Peer, Sudeep Chakravarti, Ira Pande, A. Sethumadhavan, Prema Jayakumar & Dr. K. S. Subramanian will be attending the final awards ceremony. Objective of the Award: The Vodafone Crossword Book Award recognizes and rewards the best of Indian writing and ensures that works of merit reach a wider audience. Background: Crossword and Vodafone are committed to promoting books and the reading habit. We have observed that the institution of international book awards - The Booker Prize, The Commonwealth Prize or The Pulitzer Prize has gone a long way in promoting the awareness and the reading of good books. The authors gain recognition and are rewarded handsomely. While several Indian writers have won awards abroad, we had observed that there was no equivalent award in India. We therefore decided to take on the role of encouraging and promoting good Indian writing and instituted the Book Awards, in 1998. It is the only Indian award that not only recognizes and rewards good writing but also actively promotes the authors and their books. Eligibility Criteria : Best Work in English Fiction: Entries must be works of prose fiction, excluding children and teenage fiction. Entries can be full-length novels or collections of short stories by one author. Entries must be original works in English. Entries must be published within the period 1st January 2008 to 31st December 2008. Collections of short stories should also be published between the period 1st January 2008 to 31st December 2008. The authors of the books must either be Indian citizens, persons of Indian origin, residents in India or persons with
an Indian domicile. The authors must be alive on the closing date for the entries. Entries must be made by the publishers and the last date for receiving the entry forms is 28th February 2009.

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