The Fourteenth Edition of Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest
Wednesday, October 25th to Sunday, October 29th 2023

THE POWER OF WORDS

Online : 25 - 26 Oct
On ground : 27 - 29 Oct

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

Past Recipients

We Move

2022

  • Gurnaik Johal
  • Serpent's Tail / Hachette

A Death in Shonagachhi

2021

  • Rijula Das
  • Pan MacMillan

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