Tata Literature Live! First Book Award

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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.

2021 Recipient

The 2021 winner of the Tata Literature Live! First Book Award – Non-Fiction is Landscapes of Loss: The Story of an Indian Drought by Kavitha Iyer (HarperCollins)

2021 Shortlist

Breathing Here is Injurious to Your Health: The Human Cost of Air Pollution and How You Can Be the Change

Jyoti Pande Lavakare
Hachette

It’s All In Your Head, M

Manjiri Indurkar
Westland

Landscapes of Loss: The Story of an Indian Drought

Kavitha Iyer
HarperCollins

2021 Longlist

After I was Raped: The Untold Lives of Five Rape Survivors

Urmi Bhattacheryya
Pan Macmillan

. Billions Under Lockdown: The Inside Story of India's Fight Against COVID-19

Abantika Ghosh
Bloomsbury

Breathing Here is Injurious to Your Health: The Human Cost of Air Pollution and How You Can Be the Change

Jyoti Pande Lavakare
Hachette

It’s All In Your Head, M

Manjiri Indurkar
Westland

Landscapes of Loss: The Story of an Indian Drought

Kavitha Iyer

Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir

Farah Bashir
HarperCollins

2021 Jury

Amrita Shah

Author and journalist
Dilip D'Souza

Author and journalist
Nivedita Menon

Author, scholar, professor of Political Thought at JNU
Sanjay Johri

Independent director and former Managing Director of Voltas and Reader's Digest
Tina Nagpaul

Committee Member, Tata Literature Live!; writer and filmmaker