The White Owl Literature Festival and Book Fair has announced the shortlists for its second edition of book awards. The awards will be given in the Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry categories. The Festival and Book Fair will be held between February 17 and 19 in Chümoukedima, Nagaland.

The shortlisted books in each category are:

• , Arun Ezhuthachan, translated from the Malayalam by Meera Gopinath, Hachette India

• , Bhaskar Roy, Jaico Publishing House

• An Inky Paradise: Tales of Bibliophiles, Pradeep Sebastian, Hachette, India

• , Rohit Prasad, Hachette India

• , Sohini Chattopadhyay, Harper Collins India

• Anindyo Roy, Hachette India

• , Damyanti Biswas, Jaico Publishing

• , Shinie Antony, Hachette India

• Taxi, Manjula Padmanabhan, Hachette India

• , Parul Sharma, Hachette India

• How to Love in Sanskrit: Poems, translated by Anusha Rao and Suhas Mahesh, HarperCollins India

• Anemone Morning and Other Poems, Gopal Lahiri, Penprints

• , Rochelle Potkar, Hachette India

• Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation, Sudeep Sen, Pippa Rann

• How Women Become Poems in Malabar, Smitha Seghal, Red River