Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest announces Literary Awards Longlists for 2023

Jerry Pinto`s `The Education Of Yuri` is on the Tata Literature Live! Fiction Book of the Year Longlist. Photo Courtesy: Mid-day file pic

Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest presents literary awards annually for Fiction, Non-Fiction and Business books published during the year. The awards aim to recognise and encourage literary talent across the genres among both established and new writers. The awards which are considered prestigious and keenly awaited each year, are one of the highlights of the Festival, where the winners are announced at the grande finale.

The Longlists in each category (in alphabetical order), and the eminent juries that decided the awards are as follows:

Tata Literature Live! Fiction Book of the Year Longlist (in alphabetical order)
1. Black River by Nilanjana Roy (Westland Books)
2. Everything The Light Touches by Janice Pariat (HarperCollins Publishers)
3. Fear And Lovely by Anjana Appachana (Penguin Random House India)
4. The Education Of Yuri by Jerry Pinto (Speaking Tiger Books)
5. The Light At The End Of The World by Siddhartha Deb (Westland Books)
6. The Secret Of More by Tejaswini Apte-Rahm (Aleph Book Company)

Tata Literature Live! Non-Fiction Book of the Year Longlist (in alphabetical order)
1. Broken Script: Delhi under the East India Company and the fall of the Mughal Empire by Swapna Liddle (Speaking Tiger Books)
2. India Is Broken by Ashoka Mody (Juggernaut Books)
3. Raw Umber by Sara Rai (Westland Books)
4. The Song Of The Cell: An exploration of medicine and the new human by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Penguin Random House India)
5. Vajpayee: The ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924-1977 by Abhishek Choudhary (Pan Macmillan India/Picador)
6. Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The many lives of Agyeya by Akshaya Mukul (Penguin Random House India)

Tata Literature Live! Best Fiction First Book Longlist (in alphabetical order)
1. Colony Of Shadows by Bikram Sharma (Hachette India)
2. Shurjo's Clan by Iffat Nawaz (Penguin Random House India)
3. The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff (HarperCollins Publishers)
4. The Woman Who Climbed Trees by Smriti Ravindra (HarperCollins Publishers)
5. Then Came The River by Debapriya Datta (Bloomsbury India)
6. Where Mayflies Live Forever by Anupama Mohan (Pan Macmillan India/Picador)

Tata Literature Live! Best Non-Fiction First Book Longlist (in alphabetical order)
1. Courting India: England, Mughal India and the origins of Empire by Nandini Das (Bloomsbury India)
2. Heavy Metal: How a global corporation poisoned Kodaikanal by Ameer Shahul (Pan Macmillan India)
3. Marginlands: Indian landscapes on the brink by Arati Kumar-Rao (Pan Macmillan India/Picador)
4. South vs North: India's great divide by Nilakantan RS (Juggernaut Books)
5. Vajpayee: The ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924-1977 by Abhishek Choudhary (Pan Macmillan India/Picador)
6. Vivekananda: The Philosopher Of Freedom - How the Sangh Parivar's greatest icon is its arch nemesis by Govind Krishnan V. (Aleph Book Company)

Tata Literature Live! Business Book of the Year Longlist (in alphabetical order)
1. Against All Odds: The IT story of India by S. Gopalakrishnan, N. Dayasindhu, Krishnan Narayan (Penguin Random House India)
2. Forks In The Road: My days at RBI and beyond by C. Rangarajan (Penguin Random House India)
3. Just Aspire: Notes on technology, entrepreneurship and the future by Ajai Chowdhry (HarperCollins Publishers)
4. Made In India: 75 years of business and enterprise by Amitabh Kant (Rupa Publications)
5. The Tech Phoenix by T.N. Manoharan, V. Pattabhi Ram (Rupa Publications)
6. Working To Restore: Why we do business in the regenerative era by Esha Chhabra (Penguin Random House India)

Juries for the awards:
Each award category is decided by an eminent jury. The juries for 2023 were as follows:

Fiction:
1. Anuja Chauhan, Author
2. Anirudh Kanisetti, Author
3. Deepa Gahlot, Columnist, critic and author
4. Shireen Quadri, Publisher and columnist
5. Shireen Mistry, Associate Festival Director, Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest

Non-Fiction:
1. Arun Katiyar, Communications consultant and author
2. Deepika Sorabjee, Writer and anchor of the media, art and crafts portfolio, Tata Trusts
3. Sanjukta Sharma, Author and columnist
4. Taran N. Khan, Journalist and author
5. Tina Nagpaul, Filmmaker and Associate Festival Director, Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest

Business:
1. Khozem Merchant, Columnist and business leader
2. Poornima Dore, Economist and business leader
3. Ruchira Chaudhary, Author, consultant and executive coach
4. Shilpa Kumar, Business leader and impact investor
5. Tamal Bandyopadhyay, Columnist and author

The festival will be held online from October 25 - October26 and will continue on ground from October 27 to October 29 at the NCPA in Nariman Point, St Paul's Institute of Communication Education and Title Waves bookstore in Bandra.