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JURY DECIDES RNG AWARD WINNERS, ANNOUNCEMENT ON NOVEMBER 28
The New Indian Express
|October 07, 2025
WINNERS of the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Sahithya Samman (RNGSS) 2025 were on Monday decided at a meeting of the external and internal jury, chaired by author and former diplomat Pavan Varma, author Githa Hariharan and economist and member of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council Sanjeev Sanyal.
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The winners will be announced at the award ceremony in Delhi on November 28.
The RNGSS is named in honour of Ramnath Goenka, a doyen of the Indian print industry and visionary of The New Indian Express (TNIE) Group.
Authors Ruskin Bond and Perumal Murugan (for Lifetime Achievement), Devika Rege (Fiction) and Anirudh Kanisetti (NonFiction) have been past winners.
For the third edition of the RNGSS, the team at TNIE began work on the longlist in July. Several suggestions and submissions came in from senior editors of various centres across the country from New Delhi, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Odisha. In addition, publishers shared their recommendations.
Books released between July 2024 and June 2025 were considered for nomination.
This story is from the October 07, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express.
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