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
Payal Kapadia writes and teaches in Mumbai and is a popular author of books for young adults.
Her 9th book, Woebegone’s Warehouse of Words, captures the zeitgeist of our times, where free speech is anything but free.
Her debut novella, Wisha Wozzariter won the 2013 Crossword Book Award for Children’s Writing. Her other books include the bestselling Horrid High series; a B R Ambedkar biography; Twice Upon a Time, and Maidless in Mumbai. She has also worked with news outlets in Chicago, Washington DC, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Mumbai.
sessions
DRAWING THEM IN
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28th October
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Writing for young adults
Fiona Fernandez, Zai Whitaker
Chair: Payal Kapadia
Presented by: Godrej
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Anjum Hasan
Author, India
Anjum Hasan’s latest novel is History’s Angel. She is the author of The Cosmopolitans, Neti Neti, Lunatic in my Head, and Difficult Pleasures which have been shortlisted for the…
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Anuja Chauhan
Author, Columnist, Copywriter, India
Anuja Chauhan created advertisements for multinationals for seventeen years, before writing seven best-seller novels: The Zoya Factor, set in the world of international cricket; Battle for Bittora, which captures…
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Arjun Raj Gaind
Author, India
Arjun Raj Gaind is the author of The Anatomy of Loss. He is also the author of A Very Pukka Murder, Death at the Durbar and The Missing Memsahib,…
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Arunava Sinha
Professor & Literary Translator, India
Arunava Sinha is a literary translator, working from Bengali into English and English into Bengali. More than 80 of his translations have been published so far across India, the…
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