Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival has announced its shortlists for the 2024 Fiction and Nonfiction Book Prizes. The winners will be announced at the festival which will be held in Bangalore on December 14 and 15.

Here are this year’s shortlisted fiction and nonfiction books:

• , Shazaf Fatima Haider, Penguin India

• , Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari, Westland

• , Atharva Pandit, Bloomsbury India

• , Tania James, Penguin Random House

• , Sandhya Mary, translated from the Malayalam by Jayasree Kalathil, HarperCollins India

• , Ismail Darbesh, translated by from the Bengali by V Ramaswamy, HarperCollins India

• , Radhika Iyengar, HarperCollins India.

• , Sudha Bharadwaj, Juggernaut

• , Romulus Whitaker with Janaki Lenin, HarperCollins India

• , Sohini Chattopadhyay, HarperCollins India

• , Neha Dixit, Juggernaut

• , Venki Ramakrishnan, Hachette