Staff Reporter 

CHENNAI, Jan 2: Writer Subi Taba has been awarded the Ramnath Goenka Sahithya Samman 2025 for Best Fiction for her acclaimed short story collection Tales from the Dawn-Lit Mountains. The honour, instituted by The New Indian Express Group, was conferred at a ceremony in Chennai by the Vice President of India, C. P. Radhakrishnan, in the presence of eminent jurors, writers, and cultural figures.
According to the citation issued by the awarding body, Tales from the Dawn-Lit Mountains: Stories from Arunachal Pradesh is “a luminous work of fiction that gives voice to a landscape and people too rarely represented in Indian literature.” Rooted in oral traditions and shaped by a contemporary literary sensibility, the collection was praised for evoking “the rhythms of life in Arunachal Pradesh with quiet power and deep empathy.”
The jury noted that through spare, evocative prose, Subi Taba explores themes of memory, belonging, loss, and resilience, capturing the moral universe of mountain communities navigating social and cultural change. The citation further observed that the collection expands “the imaginative geography of Indian fiction,” reaffirming storytelling as an act of cultural preservation and renewal.
Tales from the Dawn-Lit Mountains emerged as the Best Fiction title in a highly competitive year, surpassing other shortlisted works including Heart Lamp by Bhanu Mushtaq, winner of the International Booker Prize, and The Girl with the Seven Lives by Vikas Swarup, the acclaimed author of Slumdog Millionaire,stated a release.

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
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