At the India Plaza Golden Quill Awards, Manju Kapurs The Immigrant and Neel Choudhurys The Inheritors have been longlisted for best fiction, and Basharat Peers Curfewed Night for best non fiction.

Basharat Peers Curfewed Night wins the Vodafone Crossword Book Award for English Non Fiction.

Random House India are thrilled to announce our shortlisted authors for the Vodafone Crossword Book Awards.
Best Translation to English:
Manto: Selected Stories by Sadaat Hasan Manto, translated by AatishTaseer
Best Non Fiction:
Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer
Best Fiction:
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie

Geoff Dyers Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi wins the tenth Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. The prize is awarded to the best comic novel published in the last twelve months.

Jhumpa Lahiris Unaccustomed Earth wins the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Book Award (for Europe and South Asia).

Mohammed Hanifs A Case of Exploding Mangoes wins the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book Award.