Kalinga Literary Festival Book Awards announces its 2026 winners in five categories
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The Kalinga Literary Festival has announced the winners for its 2026 Book Awards in five categories – Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation, and Debut. The awards will be presented at Ek Bharat, Anek Bol Festival, presented by KLF, on December 18 at Travancore House, New Delhi.
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Here are the winners in each category:
Nonfiction: Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age, Vauhini Vara and Scamlands: Inside the Asian Empire of Fraud That Preys on the World, Snigdha Poonam
Fiction: Great Eastern Hotel, Ruchir Joshi
Poetry: Folie à Deux, Jennifer Robertson
Translation: Mudritha, Jissa Jose, translated from Malayalam by Jayasree Kalathil
Debut: The World With Its Mouth Open, Zahid Rafiq