A longlist of 16 novels are being considered for the 'Mathrubhumi Book of the Year' Award which will be announced during the third edition of the Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters to be held between January 30 and February 2 here.
The list include an eclectic mix of writing and genres in fiction by leading writers in the country, organisers said here on Tuesday.
The novels are: The Far Field (Madhuri Vijay), The City and the Sea (Raj Kamal Jha), Vanara (Anand Neelakantan), Ibs Endless Search for Satisfaction (Roshan Ali);
Milk Teeth (Amrita Mahale), There is gunpowder in the air (Manoranjan Vyapari), In search of heer (Manjul Bajaj), Eating Wasps (Anita Nair), A Secret History of Compassion (Paul Zachariah);
Bhumika: the story of Sita (Aditya Iyengar), Diary of a Malayali Madman (N Prabhakaran), Blue is like Blue (Vinod Kumar Shukla);
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