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

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

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.

2022 Recipient

The 2022 winner of the Tata Literature Live! First Book Award – Non-Fiction is Whole Numbers and Half-Truths by Rukmini S. (Westland)

2022 Shortlist

Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India’s Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

  • Shrayna Bhattacharya
  • HarperCollins Publishers

The Gorakhpur Hospital Tragedy: A Doctor's Memoir of a Deadly Medical Crisis

  • Kafeel Khan
  • Pan Macmillan India

Whole Numbers and Half-Truths

  • Rukmini S.
  • Westland

2022 Longlist

Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India’s Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

  • Shrayana Bhattacharya
  • HarperCollins Publishers

Last Among Equals: Power, Caste & Politics in Bihar's Villages

  • M.R. Sharan
  • Westland

The Gorakhpur Hospital Tragedy: A Doctor's Memoir of a Deadly Medical Crisis

  • Kafeel Khan
  • Pan Macmillan India

The Right to Sex

  • Amia Srinivasan
  • Bloomsbury India

What’s Left of the Jungle: A Conservation Story

  • Nitin Sekar
  • Bloomsbury India

Whole Numbers and Half-Truths

  • Rukmini S.
  • Westland

2022 Jury

  • Girish Kuber

    Author and editor, Loksatta.
  • Palash Mehrotra

    Author and columnist
  • Moomal Mehta

    Entrepreneur and founder Crossover Catalyst
  • Inakshi Sobti

    CEO of Asia Society India Centre
  • Tina Nagpaul

    Filmmaker and member of Literature Live! festival committee

Past Recipients

Landscapes of Loss: The Story of an Indian Drought

2021

  • Kavitha Iyer
  • HarperCollins

Shadow City

2020

  • Tarun N. Khan
  • Penguin Random House

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