1 Reading groups. Writer Tejaswini Apte-Rahm's novel, The Secret of More, was shortlisted for the best fiction book at the Tata Literature Live awards in 2023. She says she's noticed more "people coming together over books, whether they read a book and discuss it, or swap books with others, or talk about what they happen to be reading, or simply read silently together in a park or an open space."
2 Books in translation. Love stories from Odisha, memoirs in Urdu, thrillers in Konkani. "Publishers are looking towards regional languages with a rich literary scene in their respective states, for translations," says Ghosh. In 2023, the JCB Prize for Literature in India featured three books in translation of the five on their shortlist. The winning book, Perumal Murugan's Firebird, is a translation from the Tamil original to English by Janani Kannan.
3 Politics and history. To no one's surprise, Ghosh says that these categories will fire up non-fiction shelves in 2024. "The sales of titles related to history have never been better. There are more awards recognising history books written for the trade and commercial market," says Ghosh. We love a good story, retold.
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