Harper Collins sweeps FICCI Publishing Awards 2023

Wins in eight categories

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Priyanka Tanwar
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FICCI Publishing Awards are held each year to recognize the best work in the publishing industry. The awards were distributed at Publicon 2023 conference held at FICCI on 8 August.

This year’s awards are as follows: 

Children’s Book of the Year in English (Below 10 years): Read, Write, Race by Arti Sonthalia, Scholastic India 

Children’s Book of the Year in English (Below 10 years) Special Jury Award: Beauty is Missing by Priya Kuriyan, Pratham Books

Children’s Book of the Year in English (Below 10 years) Special Jury Award: I Am So Much More Than The Color Of My Skin by Divya Thomas, Harper Collins Publishers India

Children’s Book of the Year in English (10 and above years): My Name Is Cinnamon by Prakash Joshi, Hay House Publishers India 

Children’s Book of the Year in English (10 and above years) Special Jury Award: History Hunters I by Shruti Garodia and Archana Garodia Gupta, Hachette India 

Children’s Book of the Year in Hindi (Below 10 years): Teyis Tarane by Publications Division

Children’s Book of the Year in Hindi (10 and above years): Kishore dot Com by Vaishali Deshmukh and Piyali Bhattacharya, Publications Division

Book of the Year – Fiction English: Spirit Nights by Easterine Kire, Simon & Schuster India

Book of the Year – Fiction Hindi: Mahaparbat: Ek Kahaani Hamare Daur Ki by Amitav Ghosh, Harper Collins Publishers India

Book of the Year – Non-fiction English: The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India by Dinesh Singh Thakur and Prashant Reddy Thikkavarapu, Simon & Schuster India

Book of the Year – Non-fiction English Special Jury Award: Watershed: The Story of India’s Water in the Age of Climate Change by Mridula Ramesh, Hachette India

Book of the Year – Non-fiction Hindi: Ayodhya Jo Kabhi Parajit Nahi Hui by Madhav Bhandari, Sakal Prakashan

Book of the Year – Best Translation: Valli: A Novel by Sheela Tomy, translated from Malayalam to English by Jayasree Kalathil, Harper Collins Publishers India

Book of the Year – Best Translation Special Jury Award: The Sound of Waves by Kalki R Krishnamurthy, translated drom Tamil to English by Gowri Ramnarayan, Hachette India

Comic and Graphic Novel of the Year: We Mean Business: 20 Women Entrepreneurs 20 Stories by Vishwajyoti Ghosh, Shrutika Mathur and Nishtha Vadhera, Yoda Press GIZ

Book of the Year – Best Cover Design: Independence by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Harper Collins Publishers India

Book of the Year – Best Overall Design: Splendors of Punjab Heritage: Art from the Khanuja Family Collection by Pervinderjit Singh Khanuja, Roli Books 

Book of the Year – Best Overall Design Special Jury Award: A Full Circle by Namrita Bachchan, Harper Collins Publishers India

Book of the Year – Best Production Paperback: House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury

Book of the Year – Best Production Hardbound: The Great Indian Thali: Seasonal Vegetarian Wholesomeness by Nandita Iyer, Roli Books

Business Book of the Year – Business Management: The Maverick Effect: The Inside Story of India’s IT Revolution by Harish Mehta, Harper Collins Publishers India

Business Book of the Year – Business Economics: The Struggle And The Promise: Restoring India’s Potential by Naushad Darius Forbes, Harper Collins Publishers India

Business Book of the Year – Business Self-help: Limitless: The Power of Unlocking Your True Potential by Radhika Gupta, Hachette India

Business Book of the Year – Biography of a Business Leader: Indomitable: A Working Woman’s Notes on Work, Life and Leadership by Arundhati Bhattacharya, Harper Collins Publishers India

2023 promises an interesting ride for print in India

Indian Printer and Publisher founded in 1979 is the oldest B2B trade publication in the multi-platform and multi-channel IPPGroup. While the print and packaging industries have been resilient in the past 33 months since the pandemic lockdown of 25 March 2020, the commercial printing and newspaper industries have yet to recover their pre-Covid trajectory.

The fragmented commercial printing industry faces substantial challenges as does the newspaper industry. While digital short-run printing and the signage industry seem to be recovering a bit faster, ultimately their growth will also be moderated by the progress of the overall economy. On the other hand book printing exports are doing well but they too face several supply-chain and logistics challenges.

The price of publication papers including newsprint has been high in the past year while availability is diminished by several mills shutting down their publication paper and newsprint machines in the past four years. Indian paper mills are also exporting many types of paper and have raised prices for Indian printers. To some extent, this has helped in the recovery of the digital printing industry with its on-demand short-run and low-wastage paradigm.

Ultimately digital print and other digital channels will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future. For instance, there is no alternative to a rise in textbook consumption but this segment will only reach normality in the next financial year beginning on 1 April 2023.

Thus while the new normal is a moving target and many commercial printers look to diversification, we believe that our target audiences may shift and change. Like them, we will also have to adapt with agility to keep up with their business and technical information needs.

Our 2023 media kit is ready, and it is the right time to take stock and reconnect with your potential markets and customers. Print is the glue for the growth of liberal education, new industry, and an emerging economy. We seek your participation in what promises to be an interesting ride.

– Naresh Khanna

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