Publishing Next Industry Awards 2020 – Shortlist

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 Logo	Publisher Name
	Aleph Book Company
	Katha
	Penguin Random House India
	Pickle Yolk Books
	Yoda Press

Printed Book of the Year (English)

	Title of the Book	Author / Publisher
	Animal Intimacies: Beastly Love in the Himalayas	Radhika Govindrajan / Viking (Penguin Random House India)
	Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities	Harini Nagendra and Seema Mundoli / Viking (Penguin Random House India)
	Rewilding: India's Experiments in Saving Nature	Bahar Dutt / Oxford University Press
	Sketches: The Memoir of an Artist	K.M. Vasudevan Namboodiri (Trans. Gita Krishnankutty) / Penguin Press (Penguin Random House India)
	The Dancing Poet: Rabindranath Tagore and Choreographies of Participation	Rimli Bhattacharya / Tulika Books

Printed Book of the Year (Indian Languages)

	Title of the Book	Author / Publisher
	Dopehri	Pankaj Kapur / HarperCollins Publishers India
	Duppattu	Rajaram Tallur / Bahuroopi
	Hanuman Chalisa	Sant Tulasidas and others / Palm Leaf Innovations
	Irasindhur Jadukor	Ursula le Guin (Tr. Sudeshna Datta Chaudhuri) / Jadavpur University Press
	Loktantra Via Sadak Marg; Bharat ki 25 Saal ki Chunaavi Yatraon ka Nichod	Ruchir Sharma / Penguin Hindi (Penguin Random House India)

Children's Book of the Year (8+)

	Title of the Book	Author / Publisher
	Inside a Dark Box	Ritu Vaishnav / Penguin Books (Penguin Random House India)
	Kaju ki Train	Radha Indu Rana / Room to Read Trust
	Pops!	Balaji Venkataramanan / Duckbill Books (Penguin Random House India)
	The Middle	Richa Jha / Pickle Yolk Books
	Who Stole Bhaiya’s Smile?	Sanjana Kapur / Pratham Books

Children's Book of the Year (0-8)

	Title of the Book	Author / Publisher
	Darkless	Tanu Shree Singh / Puffin Books (PRH India)
	My Daddy and The Well	Jerry Pinto / Duckbill Books (PRH India)
	Papa Ki Koshish	Nguyen Khac Tu / Room to Read Trust
	Raja Ke Choohe	Radha Indu Rana / Room to Read Trust
	Snip	Canato Jimo / Pratham Books

Illustrated Book of the Year

	Title of the Book	Author / Publisher
	A Journey Within	Olivia Fraser / HarperCollins Publishers India
	​Indian Railways: A Visual Journey	Vatsal Verma, Chitra Subramanyam / DK
	Rachel Goenka's Adventures with Mithai	Rachel Goenka / HarperCollins Publishers India
	The Classic Konkan Cookbook: Based on the original recipes of Narayani Nayak	Jyotsna Shahane / HarperCollins Publishers India
	Words From My Window	Ruskin Bond / Penguin Random House India

Cover of the Year (Indian Languages)

Book Cover	Cover Designer	Author/ Publisher
	Aparajita Ninan	Surendra Mohan Pathak / Penguin Random House India
	Aparajita Ninan	Surendra Mohan Pathak / Penguin Random House India
		Pankaj Kapur / HarperCollins Publishers India
	Kiran Madalu	Kiran Bhat / Bahuroopi
	M S Sagar	Rajaram Tallur / Bahuroopi

Cover of the Year (English)

Book Cover	Cover Designer	Author/ Publisher
	Amit Malhotra	S. Hareesh (Tr: Jayasree Kalathil) / HarperCollins India
	Bhavi Mehta	Uzma Aslam Khan / Context Books
	Gunjan Ahlawat (cover art by Ankita Thakur)	Rheea Mukherjee / Penguin Random House India
	Rujuta Thakurdesai	Paul Rosolie / Penguin Random House India
	Sherna Dastur	Sudhanva Deshpande / Leftword Books

Illustrator of the Year

	Name of Illustrator	Nominated by
	Ayeshe Sadr & Ishaan Dasgupta	HarperCollins India
	Krishna Bala Shenoi	Pratham Books
	Rohan Chakravarty	Rohan Chakravarty
	Sandhya Prabhat	HarperCollins India
	Sunaina Coelho	Pratham Books
	Vishnu M Nair	Pratham Books

Editor of the Year

	Name of Editor	Nominated by
	Ayushi Saxena	Penguin Random House India
	Bijal Vachharajani	Pratham Books
	Ishita Gupta	Yoda Press
	Rahul Soni	Kanishka Gupta
	Tarini Uppal	Penguin Random House India