The Fourteenth Edition of Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest
Wednesday, October 25th to Sunday, October 29th 2023

Online : 25 - 26 Oct
On ground : 27 - 29 Oct

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Eclectic, Inclusive, International – Unmissable!

The 14th edition of Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest is around the corner! With committed audiences both online and on ground, the Festival will start with its online edition on 25th – 26th October with leading international authors such as Salman Rushdie and Elif Shafak. The Festival will take place on ground from 27th – 29th October at the NCPA, Nariman Point and St Pauls Institute of Communication Education and Title Waves bookstore in Bandra.

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Literature Live! 360@Campus Contests

Creative Writing contests were held on college campuses in August, across the city to encourage writing among peers. Prompts were provided which served as the starting and ending lines to…

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Tata Literature Live! MyStory Contest 2023

The Tata Literature Live! MyStory Contest is back!

The Tata Literature Live! MyStory contest is an initiative designed to create a space for aspiring and unpublished writers to come find…

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2022: Online and On-Ground!

2023 Speakers

Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers is an American novelist and journalist. His books, include The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, A Hologram for the King, and What Is the What, winner of France’s Prix Médicis Etranger.

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Arjun Raj Gaind

Arjun Raj Gaind is the author of The Anatomy of Loss, published by Bloomsbury India.

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Geetanjali Shree

Geetanjali Shree is the winner of the International Booker Prize for 2022 for the English translation of her novel Ret Samadhi, titled Tomb of Sand.

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Tata Literature Live! 2022 will be a hybrid festival - online and onground, with participants from around the globe. The festival is free to attend and registration is not mandatory. However, registered users get the following benefits:

  • 1. Create your own schedule with events in which you are interested
  • 2. Add events to your Google calendar
  • 3. Ability to leave comments on sessions and participate in our special events
  • 4. Exclusive access to behind the scenes and special events.
  • 5. Benefits from our sponsors such as discount codes on books.
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2022 Schedule

Book In Focus

  • 13th November
  • 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Ambi Parameswaran, Hannah Lalhlanpuii, Nilanjana Bhowmick, Paul Morland
Chair: Hrishi K

Eccentri-city

  • 13th November
  • 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Stories from quirky Mumbai
Pronoti Datta, Rehana Munir
Chair: Jane Borges

Language Is A Queer Thing

  • 13th November
  • 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

A poetry recitation of brand new work
Amani Saeed, Anil Pradhan, Garfield Dsouza, Ifẹ Grillo, Megha Harish, Sanah Ahsan

Tata Literature Live! Awards 2022

TATA LITLIVE! FOR STUDENTS

THE LITTLE FESTIVAL

The Little Festival...where books are a lot of fun. An inclusive festival for kids to make them fall in love with the written word.

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Literature Live! 360@Campus Festival

Literature Live 360@ Campus is the student engagement arm of Literature Live! wherein it organizes literary events exclusively for the student community ( 18-25yrs).

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