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Tata Literature Live! First Book Award – Non-Fiction

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

2020 Recipient

The winner of the 2020 Tata Literature Live! First Book Award for Non-Fiction is Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul by Taran N. Khan.

2020 Shortlist

In alphabetical order

Flood and Fury: Ecological Devastation in the Western Ghats

Viju B
Penguin Random House

Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul

Taran N. Khan
Penguin Random House

The Death Script: Dreams and Delusions in Naxal Country

Ashutosh Bhardwaj
HarperCollins

2020 Longlist

Flood and Fury: Ecological Devastation in the Western Ghats

Viju B
Penguin Random House

Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul

Taran N. Khan
Penguin Random House

Tales from The Tail End: My Cancer Diary

Ananya Mukherjee
Speaking Tiger

The Death Script: Dreams and Delusions in Naxal Country

Ashutosh Bhardwaj
HarperCollins

The Great Repression: The Story of Sedition in India

Chitranshul Sinha
Penguin Random House

The Lotus Years: Political Life in India in the Time of Rajiv Gandhi

Ashwini Bhatnagar
Hachette

2020 Jury

Jonathan Gil Harris

Author, Professor and Head of the Dept of English, Ashoka University.
Manu Pillai

Historian, award-winning author of four books and recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar Award.
Meena Menon

Independent journalist, author of three books; former bureau chief The Hindu, Mumbai.
Naresh Fernandes

Founder & Editor, Scroll; author, Poeisis Fellow at the Institute of Public Knowledge at New York University.
Anil Dharker

Author of six books; columnist; Founder-Director, Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest

Past Recipients

A Stranger Truth

2019

Ashok Alexander
Juggernaut

Asia Reborn

2018

Prasenjit K Basu
Aleph Book Company

Indica

2017

Pranay Lal
Allen Lane

The Ivory Throne

2016

Manu S. Pillai
HarperCollins

The Seasons Of Trouble

2015

Rohini Mohan
HarperCollins

Capital

2014

Rana Dasgupta
HarperCollins