Bengaluru: Karnataka Sahitya Academy has invited entries from authors of Kannada Books for the Best Book Prize  for the year 2019 to be awarded by the Academy.

The book can be in any form including prose, poetry, science, small stories, literature, novels, child literature and the like. The books must be first published in 2019. The entries must be sent along with four copies of the published books to the Registrar, Karnataka Sahitya Academy, Kannada Bhavan, Second Floor, J.C. Road, Bengaluru-02, either by Registered Post or Courier before Sept. 30, according a to a press release from Academy Registrar N. Kariyappa.