The Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize 2016 The Bangalore Literature Festival and Atta Galatta, the city-based bookstore and art-literature space, instituted the Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize in 2015 to honour the best of English writing, each year.
The prize is awarded in the 3 categories of English Fiction and Non-Fiction and a Literary Achievement Award for Kannada.
Longlist for 2016 | Fiction
- A Place of No Importance by Veena Muthuraman (Juggernaut)
- Ancestral Affairs by Keki Daruwalla (HarperCollins)
- Collected Stories by Naiyer Masud, Translated by Muhammad Umar Memon (Penguin Random House)
- Jihadi Jane by Tabish Khair (Penguin Random House)
- One Point Two Billion by Mahesh Rao (HarperCollins)
- Pyre by Perumal Murugan (Penguin Random House)
- Selection Day by Aravind Adiga (HarperCollins)
- Strangers to Ourselves by Shashi Deshpande (HarperCollins)
- Swimmer Among the Stars – Kanishk Tharoor (Aleph)
- The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma by Ratika Kapur (Bloomsbury)
- Until the Lions: Echoes from Mahabharata by Karthika Nair (HarperCollins)
Longlist for 2016 | Non-Fiction
- A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India by Josy Joseph (HarperCollins)
- Amma by Vaasanthi (Juggernaut)
- Being the Other by Saeed Naqvi (Aleph)
- Half-Lion by Vinay Sitapati (Penguin Random House)
- I, The Salt Doll by Vandana Mishra, Translated by Jerry Pinto (Speaking Tiger)
- Nawabs, Nudes, Noodles: India through 50 Years of Advertising by Ambi Parameswaran (Pan Macmillan)
- The Battle for Sanskrit by Rajiv Malhotra (HarperCollins)
- The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Penguin Random House)
- The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh (Penguin Random House)
- The Ivory Throne by Manu Pillai (HarperCollins)
- The Last Englishman – The Life and Times of Jack Gibson by Laeeq Futehally (Hachette)