1st Rainbow Awards

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1st Rainbow Awards
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DateDecember 10, 2023 (2023-12-10)
VenueRainbow Lit Fest, Gulmohar Park, New Delhi
Country India
Presented byDwijen Dinanath Arts Foundation
Website therainbowawards.in
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The 1st Rainbow Awards ceremony was held at Rainbow Lit Fest, Gulmohar Park, New Delhi on 10 December 2023. It celebrated writers from 1 January 2022 and journalists from 1 June 2022, both until 31 May 2023. [1]

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Jury

The nine-member jury composed of following members evaluated the submissions and decide on the award winners. Rohin Bhatt, queer rights activist, lawyer and bioethicist, served as a co-coordinator. [1] [2]

Winners and nominees

Lifetime Achievement Award

Hoshang Merchant, a Hyderabad-based poet and professor best known for his anthology Yaraana, was honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award. [1] [3]

Literature

Fiction of the Year
  • Entering the Maze: Queer Fiction of Krishnagopal Mallick by Niladri R. Chatterjee [4] (Niyogi Books)
Non-fiction of the Year

Journalism

Feature of the Year
  • Brahmin Men Who Love to Eat A** by Akhil Kang [10] (Decolonizing Sexualities Network)
    • The Horrors of Queer Conversion Therapy in India by Nolina Minj [11] (Scroll)
    • Seen-Unseen by Riddhi Dastidar [12] (Queer Beat)
Op-Ed of the Year
  • Queering Translation: Locating Queerness in Indian Languages by Chittajit Mitra [13] (Hindustan Times)
    • Why Saurabh Kirpal Needs to Be Appointed as Judge? by Kinshuk Gupta [14] (The Indian Express)
    • Though Homosexuality Has Been Decriminalised, Two Incidents in Pune Show How Bias Still Prevails by R Raj Rao [15] (Scroll)

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Sharma, Saurabh (11 December 2023). "Rainbow Lit Fest 2023: Winners of the inaugural Rainbow Awards for Literature and Journalism announced". Moneycontrol. Archived from the original on 11 December 2023.
  2. ↑ Scroll Staff (25 May 2023). "Inaugural Rainbow Awards to honour queer literature and journalism". Scroll.in.
  3. ↑ Nanisetti, Serish (10 September 2018). "'Homosexuality is endemic where capitalism thrives,' says Hoshang Merchant". The Hindu. thehindu.com.
  4. ↑ Mallick, Krishnagopal (2023). Entering the maze: queer fiction of Krishnagopal Mallick. Translated by Chatterjee, Niladri R. New Delhi: Niyogi Books. ISBN   978-93-91125-90-5.
  5. ↑ Patel, Neel (2021). Tell me how to be. New York, United States: Flatiron Books. ISBN   9781250184979. OCLC   1257313197.
  6. ↑ Ravindra, Smriti (2023). The woman who climbed trees (1st ed.). New York: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN   978-0-06-324048-3.
  7. ↑ Sharma, Maya (2022). Footprints of a queer history: life-stories from Gujarat. New Delhi, India: Yoda Press. ISBN   9789382579359. OCLC   1347785526.
  8. ↑ Onir; Malik, Irene Dhar (2022). I am Onir, & I am gay. Gurugram, Haryana, India: Penguin/Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House. ISBN   978-0-670-09473-8. OCLC   1334560573.
  9. ↑ K., Vaishali (2023). Homeless: Growing Up Lesbian and Dyslexic in India. Simon & Schuster. ISBN   9789392099502. OCLC   1371141365.
  10. ↑ Kang, Akhil (5 January 2023). "Brahmin Men who love to Eat A**". Decolonizing Sexualities Network. Archived from the original on 25 December 2023.
  11. ↑ Minj, Nolina (2022-09-07). "The horrors of queer conversion therapy in India". Scroll.in. Archived from the original on 2022-09-07.
  12. ↑ Dastidar, Riddhi (18 April 2023). "Seen-Unseen". Queer Beat. Archived from the original on 18 April 2023.
  13. ↑ Mitra, Chittajit (2022-09-29). "Essay: Queering translation: Locating queerness in Indian languages". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 2022-12-09.
  14. ↑ Gupta, Kinshuk (2023-01-27). "Why Saurabh Kirpal needs to be appointed as judge". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 2023-03-20.
  15. ↑ Rao, R. Raj (2022-07-28). "Though homosexuality has been decriminalised, two incidents in Pune show how bias still prevails". Scroll.in. Archived from the original on 2022-07-28.
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