Tata Literature Live! First Book Award

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Tata Literature Live! First Book Award – Fiction

The Tata Literature Live! First Book Award for Fiction recognises new talent in the Indian literary space in the fiction genre.

2020 Recipient

The winner of the 2020 Tata Literature Live! First Book Award for Fiction is Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara (Penguin Random House).

2020 Shortlist

(in alphabetical order)

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

Deepa Anappara
Penguin Random House

The Cliffhangers

Sabin Iqbal
Aleph

These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light

Dharini Bhaskar
Hachette

2020 Longlist

A Burning

Megha Majumdar
Penguin Random House

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

Deepa Anappara
Penguin Random House

The Cliffhangers

Sabin Iqbal
Aleph

These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light

Dharini Bhaskar
Hachette

You Beneath Your Skin

Damyanti Biswas
Simon & Schuster

What’s Wrong with You, Karthik?

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
Pan Macmillan

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!