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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.

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