The Eleventh Edition of Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest
Monday, November 16th to Sunday, November 22nd 2020
Virtual Festival
Real Books
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Tata Literature Live! First Book Award – Fiction
The Tata Literature Live! First Book Award for Fiction recognises new talent in the Indian literary space in the fiction genre.
2020 Recipient
The shortlist for the 2020 Tata Literature Live! First Book Award for Fiction has been announced. The winner will be announced during the festival.
2020 Shortlist
(in alphabetical order)
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
- Deepa Anappara
- Penguin Random House
The Cliffhangers
- Sabin Iqbal
- Aleph
These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light
- Dharini Bhaskar
- Hachette
2020 Longlist
A Burning
- Megha Majumdar
- Penguin Random House
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
- Deepa Anappara
- Penguin Random House
The Cliffhangers
- Sabin Iqbal
- Aleph
These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light
- Dharini Bhaskar
- Hachette
You Beneath Your Skin
- Damyanti Biswas
- Simon & Schuster
What’s Wrong with You, Karthik?
- Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
- Pan Macmillan
2020 Jury
-
Ashwani Kumar
Author, poet, & Professor @ Tata Institute of Social Sciences( Mumbai) -
Keki N Daruwalla
Poet, writer, former IPS officer, recipient of the Padma Shri and Sahitya Akademi Award. -
Madhavi Menon
Author; Professor of English and Director, Centre for Studies in Gender & Sexuality, Ashoka University -
Shashi Baliga
Visiting faculty, Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai; Executive Director, Literature Live!
Past Recipients
The Far Field
2019
- Madhuri Vijay
- HarperCollins
Latitudes of Longing
2018
- Shubhangi Swarup
- HarperCollins
Leila
2017
- Prayaag Akbar
- S&S India
Swimmer Among The Stars
2016
- Kanishk Tharoor
- Aleph Book Company
Red Maize
2015
- Danesh Rana
- HarperCollins
The Smoke Is Rising
2014
- Mahesh Rao
- Daunt Books