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.

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

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!