The Twelfth Edition of Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest
Thursday, November 18th to Sunday, November 21st 2021
Virtual Festival
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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 longlist for the Tata Literature Live! First Book Award – Fiction for 2021 will be announced soon.
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!
Past Recipients
Djinn Patrol
2020
- Deepa Anappara
- Penguin Random House
The Far Field
2019
- Madhuri Vijay
- HarperCollins
Latitudes of Longing
2018
- Shubhangi Swarup
- HarperCollins
Leila
2017
- Prayaag Akbar
- S&S India
Swimmer Among The Stars
2016
- Kanishk Tharoor
- Aleph Book Company
Red Maize
2015
- Danesh Rana
- HarperCollins
The Smoke Is Rising
2014
- Mahesh Rao
- Daunt Books