Tata Literature Live! Book of The Year Award

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Tata Literature Live! Book of The Year Award – Non Fiction

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

2021 Recipient

The 2021 winner of the Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award for Non Fiction is Born A Muslim: Some Truths About Islam in India by Ghazala Wahab (Aleph).

2021 Shortlist

Born a Muslim: Some Truths About Islam in India

Ghazala Wahab
Aleph

The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move

Sonia Shah
Bloomsbury

Undercover: My Journey into the Darkness of Hindutva

Ashish Khetan
Westland

2021 Longlist

Born a Muslim: Some Truths About Islam in India

Ghazala Wahab
Aleph

Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India's First Women in Medicine

Kavitha Rao
Westland

Space. Life. Matter.: The Coming of Age of Indian Science

Hari Pulakkat
Hachette

The Braided River: A Journey Along the Brahmaputra

Samrat Choudhury
HarperCollins

The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move

Sonia Shah
Bloomsbury

Undercover: My Journey into the Darkness of Hindutva

Ashish Khetan
Westland

2021 Jury

Amrita Shah

Author and journalist
Dilip D'Souza

Author and journalist
Nivedita Menon

Author, scholar, professor of Political Thought at JNU
Sanjay Johri

Independent director and former Managing Director of Voltas and Reader's Digest
Tina Nagpaul

Committee Member, Tata Literature Live!; writer and filmmaker