The Hindu Literary Prize

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Blue Ribbon () = winner.

2010^[2][3]

• Serious Men, Manu Joseph^[4][5]
• Eunuch Park, Palash Krishna Mehrotra
• The Pleasure Seekers, Tishani Doshi
• Venus Crossing, Kalpana Swaminathan
• Come, Before Evening Falls, Manjul Bajaj
• Saraswati Park, Anjali Joseph
• If I Could Tell You, Soumya Bhattacharya
• The Thing About Thugs, Tabish Khair
• The To-Let House, Daisy Hasan
• Way to Go, Upamanyu Chatterjee
• Neti, Neti, Anjum Hasan

2011^[6]

• The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya^[7][8]
• Bharathipura, translated work of U. R. Ananthamurthy, translated by Sushila Punitha
• The Fakir, translated work of Sunil Gangopadhyay, translated by Monabi Mitra
• River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
• Litanies of Dutch Battery, translated work of N. S. Madhavan, translated by Rajesh Raja Mohan
• The Folded Earth by Anuradha Roy
• The Storyteller of Marrakesh by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

2012^[9]

• Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto
• Narcopolis, Jeet Thayil
• The Extras, Kiran Nagarkar
• Difficult Pleasures, Anjum Hasan
• Bitter Wormwood, Easterine Kire

2013^[10][11]

• The Illicit Happiness of Other People, Manu Joseph
• Foreign, Sonora Jha
• Roll of Honour, Amandeep Sandhu
• Vanity Bagh, Anees Salim^[12]
• Another Man's Wife and Other Stories, Manjul Bajaj

2014^[13]

• The Competent Authority, Shovon Chowdhury
• Shadow Play, Shashi Deshpande
• A Bad Character, Deepti Kapur
• Idris, Keeper of the Light, Anita Nair
• The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
• The Book of Common Signs, Ashok Srinivasan^[14]

2015^[15]

• Flood of Fire, Amitav Ghosh
• Odysseus Abroad, Amit Chaudhuri
• Seahorse, Janice Pariat
• Sleeping on Jupiter, Anuradha Roy
• The Patna Manual of Style, Siddharth Chowdhury
• When the River Sleeps, Easterine Kire^[16]

2016^[17]

• Half of What I Say, Anil Menon
• Jinnah Often Came To Our House, Kiran Doshi^[18]
• Kalkutta, Kunal Basu
• The Adivasi Will Not Dance: Stories, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
• The Island of Lost Girls, Manjula Padmanabhan

2017^[19]

• Leila, Prayaag Akbar
• When I Hit You, Meena Kandasamy
• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy
• The Small Town Sea, Anees Salim
• Temporary People, Deepak Unnikrishnan^[20]

2018^[21][22]

• Fiction
  • Half the Night is Gone, Amitabha Bagchi
  • A Day in the Life, Anjum Hasan
  • All the Lives We Never Lived, Anuradha Roy
  • Poonachi, Perumal Murugan (translated from Tamil by N. Kalyan Raman)
  • The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die, Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha)
  • Requiem in Raga Janki, Neelum Saran Gour
• Non-fiction
  • Interrogating my Chandal Life: An Autobiography of a Dalit, Manoranjan Byapari, translated from Bengali by Sipra Mukherjee
  • The Bengalis: A Portrait of a Community, Sudeep Chakravarti
  • Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory, Aanchal Malhotra
  • Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature, Jairam Ramesh
  • The Most Dangerous Place:A History of the United States in South Asia, Srinath Raghavan

2019^[23][24]

• Fiction
  • The Assassination of Indira Gandhi, Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Tell Her Everything, Mirza Waheed
  • The Queen of Jasmine Country, Sharanya Manivannan
  • Latitudes of Longing, Shubangi Swarup
  • Heat, Poomani, translated from Tamil by Kalyan Raman
• Non-fiction
  • Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From, Tony Joseph
  • Polio: The Odyssey of Eradication, Thomas Abraham
  • The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts, Gautam Bhatia
  • India, Empire, and First World War Culture, Santanu Das
  • The Anatomy of Hate, Revati Laul

• Lit for Life