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.

2023 Recipient

The 2023 winner of the Tata Literature Live! First Book Award – Fiction is The Woman Who Climbed Trees by Smriti Ravindra (HarperCollins Publishers).

2023 Shortlist

Shurjo’s Clan

Iffat Nawaz
(Penguin Random House India)

The Bandit Queens

Parini Shroff
(HarperCollins Publishers)

The Woman Who Climbed Trees

Smriti Ravindra
(HarperCollins Publishers)

2023 Longlist

The Colony of Shadows

Bikram Sharma
Hachette India

Shurjo's Clan

Iffat Nawaz
Penguin Random House India

The Bandit Queens

Parini Shroff
HarperCollins Publishers

The Woman Who Climbed Trees

Smriti Ravindra
HarperCollins Publishers

Then Came The River

Debapriya Datta
Bloomsbury India

Where Mayflies Live Forever

Anupama Moha
Pan Macmillan India/Picador

2023 JURY

Anirudh Kanisetti

Anirudh Kanisetti is a historian who won the 2022 Tata Literature Live! Best First Non Fiction book award
Anuja Chauhan

Anuja Chauhan has written seven best-seller novels, before which she created advertisements for multinationals for seventeen years.
Deepa Gahlot

Deepa Gahlot is a critic, columnist and author who writes on cinema, theatre and the arts
Shireen Mistry

Shireen Mistry is a former communicator in the field of diplomacy and Associate Festival Director, Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest
Shireen Qadri

Shireen Quadri is a publisher working in the area of art and culture advocacy