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Readers' Choice! |
The power in your hands to choose the book you think is the best and which deserves the award. The shortlist will be announced shortly and this time will consist of both fiction and non-fiction.
Vote now!
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Welcome to the Indiaplaza 'Golden Quill' Book Awards 2009
As the largest bookstore in India, we have served book lovers like no other store has. For us selling books is a passion. This passion has enabled us in understanding the hearts and minds of Indian readers and their hunger for good books. Indian writers do not often receive the focus they deserve because of which not many readers are able to read quality Indian writing. We hope to change that and did so with the Indiaplaza Golden Quill Awards, 2008, which was a grand success. Now we continue with the journey with the Indiaplaza Golden Quill Awards, 2009.
The focus this year is on books written by Indian authors domiciled in India in both fiction and non-fiction. That's right, this year we have added a new category of non-fiction to enhance the scope and the reach of this Award and also to introduce new books and authors to the readers.
We also desire that the reader be involved in the process of the selection of the final winner. Hence The Indiaplaza Golden Quill - Readers' choice. We hope you have as much fun selecting your best book as we enjoyed putting the whole thing together. |
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Concept Behind The 'Golden Quill' Awards |
Indiaplaza is today India"s largest online bookstore with over a million customers worldwide. The Indiaplaza Golden Quill Award 2008 was held in August and was a grand success.
To continue with this journey, the 'Indiaplaza Golden Quill Award 2009' will be held this September. This award is to encourage Indian writing and also to further our commitment to the cause of reading in India.
This year Indiaplaza introduces a new award; Indiaplaza Golden Quill book award for non-fiction.
The Indiaplaza Golden Quill will be finally awarded to an author whose work of fiction or non-fiction in English is judged the best among a select lot of titles published in India in the calendar year 2008.
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| » For Whom Is The Award? |
- The award is for writers in English and translated text published in India.
- There will be three awards: The Indiaplaza Golden Quill Book Award 2009 will be decided by an eminent Jury and a Reader’s
Choice Award 2009 for fiction and non-fiction will be decided by the readers through an online process set up by Indiaplaza. The chosen authors will be a given a citation, a trophy and cash prize each.
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| » The External Counselor: |
- Ms. Arundhati Ghosh, Deputy Director - India Foundation for Arts, will be the external advisor and counselor. Ms. Ghosh will oversee the awards and ensure transparency of process.
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| » The Selection Process: |
- For this year Publishers will be invited to submit entries from their stable of books published in 2008.
- The shortlist of 3 books will be selected by a panel of professional reviewers.
- The jury will read the shortlist of 3 titles and choose the award winning book.
- For the Reader's Choice Award, individuals will choose one of the 3 books. At the end of the voting period, the book that has garnered the highest count of votes will be declared as the winner. Each individual will have a single vote.
- The winner chosen by the Jury and by the voters will be announced at the Award ceremony to be held in the first week of September.
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