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Shalimar the Clown wins Hutch Crossword Book Award

Staff Reporter

The popular book award that readers vote for went toPundits from Pakistanby Rahul Bhattacharya

CHENNAI: Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown had a reason to smile when it won the Hutch Crossword Book Award 2005 for English Fiction.

On March 21, Krishna Sobti, who wrote The Heart Has Its Reasons, and translators Reema Anand and Meenakshi Swami won the award in the Indian Language Fiction Translation category.

Suketu Mehta's Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found won in a newly introduced category for English Non-Fiction.

The Hutch Crossword Popular Book Award that readers vote for went to Pundits from Pakistan by Rahul Bhattacharya.

The awards were announced at an event in Mumbai attended by people from the literary world and booklovers.

It was directed by theatre person Vikram Kapadia and hosted by actor Anahita Oberoi. Rehaan Engineer, Kitu Gidwani, Kavita Sharma and singer Seema Sehgal performed during the event.

The judges for the English Fiction category were Nilanjana S. Roy, Geeta Doctor and Mukund Padmanabhan.

Kai Friese, Urvashi Butalia and Harsh Sethi judged the non-fiction category.

The Indian Language Fiction Translation category was judged by Dilip Chitre, Sukanta Chaudhuri and Paul Zacharia.

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