“Destiny is not a matter of chance but choice, is the saying. But, sometimes destiny is a chance, an opportunity, and what we make of it shapes our life. LitMart @ BLF 2014 gave me that opportunity- to present my story idea to a panel of commissioning editors & lit agents. As I await the release of my debut novel in 2016 with HarperCollins, I thank LitMart for giving me that chance. . .”
“Sometimes a tiny nudge can cascade your waiting destiny into unfolding in front of you. A nudge that in its most characteristic duplicity stays hidden. I can’t thank LitMart enough for providing me with that much needed nudge that has launched my life as a writer into being.”
LitMart Grand Finale: Dec 6 2015 (Sunday), 3.30 PM – 5.30 PM at Seasons Hall, Hotel Royal Orchid
After the immense success of LitMart last year, for the second year running the Bangalore Literature Festival brings to you the exclusive forum where aspiring authors get a chance to make three-minute pitches of their book idea to literary agents, commissioning editors and publishers.
List of finalists
Qualified
- Saisudha Acharya
- Anand Udupa
- Siddharth Murlidharan
- Suraj L
- Uttiya Bhattacharya
- Sudhir
- D Sushant
- Elizabeth Bowden-David
- Subhashri C V
- Arindam Sengupta
- Chethana Ramesh
- V Vijai Balaji
- VIjay Siddharth
- Archana Sarat
- Sindhu Venugopal-Roy
Waitlisted
- Sachithananda Bhat G
- Melanie
- Ramkumar
- Rituparna Maji
- Asad Ali Junaid
- Yashashree Kamat
- Shirin Laturkar
- Tareque Laskar
- Nithyau Ramkumar
- Srividya Srinivasan
Panel of judges
Aanchal Malhotra

Bio
Aanchal Malhotra is a Delhi-based oral historian and the author of two critically acclaimed works of non-fiction, Remnants of A Separation, and In the Language of Remembering, and the novel, The Book of Everlasting Things. She is also the co-founder of the Museum of Material Memory, a digital repository tracing family histories and social ethnography through heirlooms, collectibles and antiques from the Indian subcontinent.
Jayapriya Vasudevan

Bio
Jayapriya Vasudevan: has more than twenty years experience of working in publishing, during which time she has worked in virtually every area of the business. From editing and event management to sales and distribution, she has ‘done it all.’ With a partner she set up India’s first bookstore café in Bangalore. In 1997, she decided to use her years of experience in publishing to set up Jacaranda, India’s first ever literary agency. She went on to build up an impressive list, working with distinguished authors such as Krishna Udayasankar, Tiffany Tsao and Wanjiru Koinange.
Following a stint living in Beijing, where she continued to develop her list, Jayapriya moved to Singapore in 2006. Here she set up Books@Jacaranda Literary Agency. She moved on to live in Nairobi and has recently moved back to India. Over the years the agency has grown and now represents an exciting and diverse list of authors from Singapore and across South East Asia and beyond. Jayapriya has spoken at literary conferences all over Asia, from Istanbul and India to Manila and Singapore, to London and Frankfurt. Jayapriya was the Festival Director for the Times of India Literary Festival in 2017 and 2018 in Bangalore. She is passionate about the visual and performing arts, about books, travel, animals and people.
Rashmi Menon

Bio
Rashmi Menon is Executive Editor at HarperCollins India. She has been a part of publishing for fifteen years, commissioning and editing many bestselling works of fiction and non-fiction. Rashmi loves acquiring books that are both timely and timeless. When reading too many manuscripts makes her go cross-eyed, she switches to audiobooks in her non-stop quest to decode bestsellers.
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