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! 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

Past Recipients

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