Here are the final shortlists for various categories of the Publishing Next Industry Awards 2020. The shortlisted candidates are listed alphabetically: Publisher of the Year Publisher LogoPublisher Name Aleph Book Company Katha Penguin Random House India Pickle Yolk Books Yoda Press Printed Book of the Year (English) Title of the BookAuthor / Publisher Animal Intimacies: Beastly Love in the HimalayasRadhika Govindrajan / Viking (Penguin Random House India) Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian CitiesHarini Nagendra and Seema Mundoli / Viking (Penguin Random House India) Rewilding: India's Experiments in Saving NatureBahar Dutt / Oxford University Press Sketches: The Memoir of an ArtistK.M. Vasudevan Namboodiri (Trans. Gita Krishnankutty) / Penguin Press (Penguin Random House India) The Dancing Poet: Rabindranath Tagore and Choreographies of ParticipationRimli Bhattacharya / Tulika Books Printed Book of the Year (Indian Languages) Title of the BookAuthor / Publisher DopehriPankaj Kapur / HarperCollins Publishers India DuppattuRajaram Tallur / Bahuroopi Hanuman ChalisaSant Tulasidas and others / Palm Leaf Innovations Irasindhur JadukorUrsula le Guin (Tr. Sudeshna Datta Chaudhuri) / Jadavpur University Press Loktantra Via Sadak Marg; Bharat ki 25 Saal ki Chunaavi Yatraon ka NichodRuchir Sharma / Penguin Hindi (Penguin Random House India) Children's Book of the Year (8+) Title of the BookAuthor / Publisher Inside a Dark BoxRitu Vaishnav / Penguin Books (Penguin Random House India) Kaju ki TrainRadha Indu Rana / Room to Read Trust Pops!Balaji Venkataramanan / Duckbill Books (Penguin Random House India) The MiddleRicha Jha / Pickle Yolk Books Who Stole Bhaiya’s Smile?Sanjana Kapur / Pratham Books Children's Book of the Year (0-8) Title of the BookAuthor / Publisher DarklessTanu Shree Singh / Puffin Books (PRH India) My Daddy and The WellJerry Pinto / Duckbill Books (PRH India) Papa Ki KoshishNguyen Khac Tu / Room to Read Trust Raja Ke ChooheRadha Indu Rana / Room to Read Trust SnipCanato Jimo / Pratham Books Illustrated Book of the Year Title of the BookAuthor / Publisher A Journey WithinOlivia Fraser / HarperCollins Publishers India Indian Railways: A Visual JourneyVatsal Verma, Chitra Subramanyam / DK Rachel Goenka's Adventures with MithaiRachel Goenka / HarperCollins Publishers India The Classic Konkan Cookbook: Based on the original recipes of Narayani NayakJyotsna Shahane / HarperCollins Publishers India Words From My WindowRuskin Bond / Penguin Random House India Cover of the Year (Indian Languages) Book CoverCover DesignerAuthor/ Publisher Aparajita NinanSurendra Mohan Pathak / Penguin Random House India Aparajita NinanSurendra Mohan Pathak / Penguin Random House India Pankaj Kapur / HarperCollins Publishers India Kiran MadaluKiran Bhat / Bahuroopi M S SagarRajaram Tallur / Bahuroopi Cover of the Year (English) Book CoverCover DesignerAuthor/ Publisher Amit MalhotraS. Hareesh (Tr: Jayasree Kalathil) / HarperCollins India Bhavi MehtaUzma Aslam Khan / Context Books Gunjan Ahlawat (cover art by Ankita Thakur)Rheea Mukherjee / Penguin Random House India Rujuta ThakurdesaiPaul Rosolie / Penguin Random House India Sherna DasturSudhanva Deshpande / Leftword Books Illustrator of the Year Name of IllustratorNominated by Ayeshe Sadr & Ishaan DasguptaHarperCollins India Krishna Bala ShenoiPratham Books Rohan ChakravartyRohan Chakravarty Sandhya PrabhatHarperCollins India Sunaina CoelhoPratham Books Vishnu M NairPratham Books Editor of the Year Name of EditorNominated by Ayushi SaxenaPenguin Random House India Bijal VachharajaniPratham Books Ishita GuptaYoda Press Rahul SoniKanishka Gupta Tarini UppalPenguin Random House India