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Valley of Words Book Awards announces its 2025 shortlists across eight categories

The Valley of Words Book Awards 2025 has announced its shortlists across eight categories. The winners will be announced at the Valley of Words Literature and Arts Festival to be held in Dehradun on October 25 and 26 and will receive a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh and a trophy. For each category, the final shortlist of five books was narrowed down from a longlist of ten. The shortlisted titles of the VoW Book Awards 2025 are: English Nonfiction English Fiction Border Crossers, Bhaskar Roy Island, Sujit Saraf Never Never Land, Namita Gokhale Swallowing the Sun, Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri Hill Songs of Love and Longing, Bijoya Sawian English Translation Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada, Shahu Patole, translated from the Marathi by Bhushan Kargaonkar Lavanyadevi, Kusum Khemani, translated from the Hindi by Banibrata Mahanta Ten Days of the Strike, Sandipan Chattopadhyay, translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha A Temple of No Gods, Manav Kaul, translated from the Hindi by Sayari Debnath White Blood, Nanak Singh, translated from the Punjabi by Dilraj Singh Suri Hindi Nonfiction Khaki Mein Sthitpragya, Anil Raturi Pathik Mein Aravali Ka, Bhanwar Meghwanshi Bidaay De Maa!, Sudhir Vidyarthi Hampi: Utkarsh Se Apkarsh Tak, Tapas Chakraborty Himalaya Ka Itihas, Madan Chandra Bhatt Hindi Fiction Atar Duniya Mein Kya Hasil, Pratyaksha Kandho Par Ghar, Pragya Zoya Desai Cottage, Pankaj Subir Vanya, Manisha Kulshrestha Suno Kabir, Soni Pandey Hindi Translation In Love With Death, Satish Modi, translated by Parijat Khaulta Punjab, Baldev Singh Dhaliwal, translated by Tarsem Uttar Bharat Mein Chamar Aur Dalit Andolan Ka Itihas, Ramnarayan S Rawat, translated by Kanwal Bharti Bahattar Meel, Ashok Vatkar, translated by Sulabh Kore Shiuli Ki Gandh Aur Anya Kahaniya, Taslima Nasrin, translated by Utpal Banerjee Young Adult Literature Children's Literature