The Eleventh Edition of Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest
Thu Nov 19, Fri Nov 20, Sat Nov 21, Sun Nov 22 2019
Conversations
Panel Discussions
Book Launches
Awards
Workshops
NCPA (South Mumbai)
St. Pauls Institute (Bandra)
Prithvi Theatre (Juhu)
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.
2019 Recipient
The 2019 TATA Literature Live! Book Of The Year Award for Fiction was awarded to The City And The Sea by Raj Kamal Jha.
2019 Shortlist
This shortlist has four nominations as there was a tie between two books
Small Days And Nights
- Tishani Doshi
- Bloomsbury
The Assassination Of Indira Gandhi
- Upamanyu Chatterjee
- Speaking Tiger
The City And The Sea
- Raj Kamal Jha
- Penguin Random House
The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali
- Uzma Aslam Khan
- Westland
2019 Longlist
I Have Become The Tide
- Githa Hariharan
- Simon & Schuster
Small Days And Nights
- Tishani Doshi
- Bloomsbury
Tell Her Everything
- Mirza Waheed
- Westland
The Assassination Of Indira Gandhi
- Upamanyu Chatterjee
- Speaking Tiger
The City And The Sea
- Raj Kamal Jha
- Penguin Random House
The Miraculous True History Of Nomi Ali
- Uzma Aslam Khan
- Westland
2019 Jury
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Arshia Sattar
Author who writes about books and literature for publications in India and abroad -
Deepanjana Pal
Author and journalist -
Jerry Pinto
Author of Em and the Big Hoom and Murder in Mahim -
Peter Griffin
Writer, poet, amateur artist and journalist with The Hindu -
Shashi Baliga
Journalist, media educator and Executive Director, Literature Live!
Past Recipients
All The Lives We Never Lived
2018
- Anuradha Roy
- Hachete
Son Of The Thundercloud
2017
- Easterine Kire
- Speaking Tiger
Selection Day
2016
- Aravind Adiga
- Fourth Estate
Until The Lions
2015
- Karthika Nair
- HarperCollins
Arctic Summer
2014
- Damon Galgut
- Aleph Book Company