The Twelfth Edition of Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest
Thursday, November 18th to Sunday, November 21st 2021
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TATA Literature Live! Book Of The Year Award – Fiction
The Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award for fiction has been constituted to recognise noteworthy work in the Indian literary space in the fiction genre.
2021 Recipient
The 2021 winner of the Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award – Fiction is Asoca : A Sutra by Irwn Allan Sealy (Penguin Random House).
2021 Shortlist
Asoca : A Sutra
- Irwin Allan Sealy
- Penguin Random House
China Room
- Sunjeev Sahota
- Penguin Random House
Names Of The Women
- Jeet Thayil
- Penguin Random House
2021 Longlist
Asoca : A Sutra
- Irwin Allan Sealy
- Penguin Random House
China Room
- Sunjeev Sahota
- Penguin Random House
Essential Items and Other Tales from a Land in Lockdown
- Udayan Mukherjee
- Bloomsbury
Murder at the Mushaira
- Raza Mir
- Aleph
Names of the Women
- Jeet Thayil
- Penguin Random House
The Last Queen
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- HarperCollins
2021 Jury
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Arundhati Subramaniam
Poet, author, journalist and curator -
Githa Hariharan
Author, editor and columnist -
Shashi Warrier
Author, columnist and professor -
Vinita Mathew
Professor of English Literature, Wilson College, Mumbai -
Shireen Mistry
Committee Member, Tata Literature Live!; communications professional
Past Recipients
Prelude To A Riot
2020
- Annie Zaidi
- Aleph
The City And The Sea
2019
- Raj Kamal Jha
- Penguin Random House
All The Lives We Never Lived
2018
- Anuradha Roy
- Hachete
Son Of The Thundercloud
2017
- Easterine Kire
- Speaking Tiger
Selection Day
2016
- Aravind Adiga
- Fourth Estate
Until The Lions
2015
- Karthika Nair
- HarperCollins
Arctic Summer
2014
- Damon Galgut
- Aleph Book Company