Crossword Book Award (formerly known as the Crossword Book Award (1998–2003), the Hutch Crossword Book Award (2004–07), the Vodafone Crossword Book Award...
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Sacred Games (novel) (section Awards and nominations)
release, it received critical acclaim and subsequently won the Vodafone Crossword Book Award. Sacred Games runs mostly on two parallel tracks. One winding...
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Shalimar the Clown won the 2005 Vodafone Crossword Book Award and was one of the finalists for the 2005 Whitbread Book Awards. The novel is based partly in...
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Mukherjee. His first novel, Past Continuous won the Vodafone-Crossword Book Award in 2008 and several more awards when republished in the U.K. in 2010 as A Life...
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The Inheritance of Loss (category Booker Prize-winning works)
awards, including the Booker Prize for that year, the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award in 2007, and the 2006 Vodafone Crossword Book Award....
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Annie Zaidi (writer) (section Awards and honours)
with Bandits and Other True Tales, was short-listed for the Vodafone Crossword Book Award in 2010. She also writes poetry (Crush, 2007), short stories...
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most popular book, a classic novel in Bengali. The novel, translated into English by Arunava Sinha, won the Vodafone Crossword Book Award 2007 for the...
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inspirational and spiritual themes. Her book License to Live (2010) was nominated for Vodafone Crossword Book Award in 2010. In 2019, her novel I Will Go...
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documents. The book was published in 2009 as Looking East to Look West: Lee Kuan Yew's Mission India and won that year's Vodafone Crossword Book Award. Datta...
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Sriram Karri (section Awards)
first book, The Spiritual Supermarket, was published by Mosaic Books for the Indian sub-continent in 2007. It was longlisted for the Vodafone Crossword Book...
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interviews with the author, and other sources. It won the 2006 Vodafone Crossword Book Award. Review by Antony Beevor, Times Online, September 3, 2005 (Retrieved...
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prestigious literary non-fiction prize, the Vodafone Crossword Book Award for 2009. Written by Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, the book is a "profound" and "intricate" analytic-history...
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Maximum City (section Awards)
peoples of the Pacific Rim and South Asia. It won the 2005 Vodafone Crossword Book Award. The Economist named Maximum City one of its books of the year for...
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The Last Mughal (category Indian history book stubs)
Mahmood Farooqui. The book won the 2006 Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for History and Biography, and the 2007 Vodafone Crossword Book Award. Geoffrey Moorhouse...
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Beast With Nine Billion Feet. It was shortlisted for the 2010 Vodafone Crossword Book Award and the 2010 Parallax Prize. In 2009, in conjunction with Vandana...
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India. The book was longlisted for the Vodafone Crossword Book Award for 2011. Set in a herb shop on a bustling road in Bangalore, this book is about a...
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Ramachandran's theories about mirror neurons. The book won the 2010 Vodafone Crossword Book Award (Non-Fiction). The neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote:...
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William Dalrymple (section Awards and honours)
contribution in literature and history." The Last Mughal won the 2007 Vodafone Crossword Book Award for best work in English non-fiction. An Honorary Doctorate...
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Sea of Poppies (section Awards)
Vodafone Crossword Book Award for Fiction. It was shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. It won the 2008 British Book Design and Production Award...
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Kalpana Swaminathan (section Awards and honors)
Swaminathan and Syed are both surgeons. Swaminathan won the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Award (Fiction) for Venus Crossing: Twelve Stories of Transit. 1993:...
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the two countries had fought a war. It won the 2005 Vodafone Crossword Book Award in the Popular Award category. In 2010 it was voted number four of the...
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effortless and does a perfect job." The novel won the 2010 Vodafone Crossword Book Award (Popular Award). Novels portal The Rozabal Line The Krishna Key IANS...
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A Life Apart (novel) (section Awards)
writing the book in 2001 after taking a course in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. 2008 Vodafone Crossword Book Award, English Fiction...
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embodied in the idea of the 'city of love'. The book was shortlisted for the Vodafone Crossword Book Award 2007. The City of Love begins with the siege of...
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Rimi B. Chatterjee (section Honors and awards)
Book (Empires of the Mind: A History of the Oxford University Press in India During the Raj) 2007 English Fiction shortlist, Vodafone Crossword Book Award...
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recommended the book, and it won the 2010 Vodafone Crossword Book Award in the Children's Literature category. In 2011, Sarma was awarded the Bal Sahitya...
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the Homi Bhabha Fellowship. Her book Bazaars, Conversations and Freedom (2009) won two Vodafone Crossword Book Awards, one in the "Non Fiction" category...
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Amitav Ghosh (category Recipients of the Jnanpith Award)
Poppies was shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. It was the co-winner of the Vodafone Crossword Book Award in 2009, as well as co-winner of the 2010...
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in its Own Words. In June 2008, it was shortlisted for the Vodafone Crossword Book Award in India. Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry (United States)...
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Amitava Kumar (section Awards and fellowships)
Products was short-listed for India's premier literary prize, the Vodafone Crossword Book Award. Kumar was the scriptwriter for two documentary films: Dirty...
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