TATA Literature Live! Book Of The Year Award

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TATA Literature Live! Book Of The Year Award – Fiction

The Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award for fiction has been constituted to recognise noteworthy work in the Indian literary space in the fiction genre.

2020 Recipient

The winner of the TATA Literature Live! Book Of The Year Award – Fiction is Prelude To A Riot by Annie Zaidi (Aleph).

2020 Shortlist

In alphabetical order

Amnesty

Aravind Adiga
Pan Macmillan

Girl Made of Gold

Gitanjali Kolanad
Juggernaut

Memory of Light

Ruth Vanita
Penguin Random House

Prelude to a Riot

Annie Zaidi
Aleph

2020 Longlist

A People's History of Heaven

Mathangi Subramanian
Penguin Random House

Amnesty

Aravind Adiga
Pan Macmillan

Girl Made of Gold

Gitanjali Kolanad
Juggernaut

Memory of Light

Ruth Vanita
Penguin Random House

Prelude to a Riot

Annie Zaidi
Aleph

The Merman and the Book of Power : A Quissa

Musharraf Ali Farooqui
Aleph

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!