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PragatiE Vichaar Excellence Awards Winners List 2022

NEW DELHI, Jan. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — In its mission to promote literary works and industry, PragatiE Vichaar Literature Festival initiated PVLF Excellence Awards. They are perhaps the first 100% authentic awards and are driven by data and numbers. Frontlist Media joined hands with the Federation of Indian Publishers [FIP] and brought Nielsen as a knowledge partner. These awards are powered by Nielsen Bookscan Data, the only real source that tracks actual book sales across India and the World. Data used for the awards was from Jan 2019 – Nov 2021. Pranav Gupta, Hony General Secretary of FIP and Co-founder of Frontlist Media said, “These dates were selected to ensure the bias of Covid may be removed from the end-result. We went till 15 months before the pandemic hit.”
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List of awards and the winners.
PVLF Author Excellence Awards: These awards were based on nominations by authors, who were allowed to nominate themselves into a maximum of 2 categories. The nominations were shortlisted by a Jury along with the Nielsen Bookscan Data. The final winner in each category was awarded on the basis of Public Voting.
Below is the list of the winners of PVLF Author Excellence Awards:
 WINNERS Of PVLF Author Excellence Awards
Category
Book Name
Author Name
Publisher Name
Best Debut Fiction
Janaka and Ashtavakra: A Journey Beyond
Ashraf Karayath
Rupa Publications
Best Debut Non Fiction
Delhi Heritage: Top 10 Baolis
Vikramjit Singh Rooprai
Niyogi Books
Best Fiction
Mafia Premier League
K. Vijayakarthikeyan
Rupa Publications
Best Non-Fiction
Going Solo – Raising Happy Kids
Sujata Parashar
Vishwakarma Publications
Best Poetry
Dear Silver Lining…
Shalini Chhabra Jain
V & S Publishers
PVLF People’s Choice Publisher Awards: According to Pranav Gupta, Co-founder of Frontlist Media, “Publisher awards were meant to specifically recognize the Indian Publishers. Going beyond some of the international publishers who dominate all awards. We chose only the Indian Publishers in this category and decided upon them strictly based on the Nielsen Bookscan Data.”
There were 3 categories under this award section and the top 3 Indian Publishers in each category were selected.
 WINNERS of PVLF People’s Choice Publisher Awards
Awards
Trade (Non-Academic) Publishers
Top Indian Children Publishers
Top Indian Academic Publishers
First Prize
Prakash Books India (P) Ltd
Prakash Books India (P) Ltd
Arihant Publishers
Second Prize
Manjul Publishing House
Dreamland Publications
Disha Publication
Third Prize
Rupa Publications
Om Books International
S Chand & Co Ltd
PVLF Reader’s Choice Book Awards: These awards were to recognize the most sold books across all categories. The results were based on the Nielsen definition of Silver, Gold and Platinum Books. The final winner amongst these categories was selected by Public voting.
WINNERS of PVLF Reader’s Choice Book Awards
Category
Book Name
Author Name
Publisher Name
Platinum (250,000+ copies sold)
Indian Polity
M. Laxmikanth
McGraw Hill Education
Gold (200,000 – 250,000 copies sold)
Oxford Student Atlas for India
Oxford Editorial Board
Oxford University Press
Silver (150,000 – 200,000 copies sold)
Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta
Amish Tripathi
Westland Publications Ltd
We would like to congratulate all supremely talented authors who participated in the event to make it a grand success. The next version of PVLF awards certainly promises to be a big one. Go to www.Frontlist.in for more information about PVLF Excellence Awards.
About PVLF
PVLF is dedicated to enhancing Dialogue, Literature, Free Speech, Storytelling and promotion of the world’s most powerful tool of communication that is writing.
PragatiE Vichaar Literature Festival Author Excellence Awards 2022: These awards were based on nominations by authors, who were allowed to nominate themselves into a maximum of 2 categories. The nominations were shortlisted by a Jury along with the Nielsen Bookscan Data. The final winner in each category was awarded on the basis of Public Voting.
Contact Navita Berry Email ID: navita@frontlist.in  Contact Number: 9711676777

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