The winners are traditionally announced at the closing session of the Festival. Since the Festival is online again this year due to the continuing Covid-19 pandemic, the Awards Ceremony will be streamed on Sunday, 21 November.
The Shortlists in each category (in alphabetical order), and the eminent Juries that decided the Awards are as follows:
- Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year (Fiction) Shortlist (in alphabetical order):
- Asoca: A Sutra by Irwin Allan Sealy (Penguin Random House)
- China Room by Sunjeev Sahota (Penguin Random House)
- Names of the Women by Jeet Thayil (Penguin Random House)
- Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year (Non-Fiction) Shortlist (in alphabetical order)
- Born a Muslim: Some Truths About Islam in India by Ghazala Wahab (Aleph)
- The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move by Sonia Shah (Bloomsbury)
- Undercover: My Journey into the Darkness of Hindutva by Ashish Khetan (Westland)
- Tata Literature Live! First Book (Fiction) Shortlist (in alphabetical order)
- A Bit of Everything by Sandeep Raina (Westland)
- A Death in Shonagachhi by Rijula Das (Pan MacMillan)
- Gods and Ends by Lindsay Pereira (Penguin Random House)
- Tata Literature Live! First Book (Non-Fiction) Shortlist (in alphabetical order)
- Breathing Here is Injurious to Your Health: The Human Cost of Air Pollution and How You Can Be the Change by Jyoti Pande Lavakare (Hachette)
- It’s All In Your Head, M by Manjiri Indurkar (Westland)
- Landscapes of Loss: The Story of an Indian Drought by Kavitha Iyer (HarperCollins)
- Tata Literature Live! Business Book of the Year Shortlist (in alphabetical order)
- Fossil Free: Reimagining Clean Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World by Sumant Sinha (HarperCollins)
- Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy by Tamal Bandyopadhyay (Roli Books)
- Spring: Bouncing Back From Rejection by Ambi Parameswaran (Westland)
Juries for the awards
Each award category is decided by an eminent jury. The juries for 2021 were as follows:
- Fiction
- 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
- Non Fiction
- 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
- Business
- Arun Kumar: Chairman and CEO, KPMG India
- Emmanuel David: Strategic Leader, Influencer and Coach; Former Director Tata Management Training Centre
- Errol D’Souza: Professor of Economics and Director, IIM Ahmedabad
- Shaili Chopra: Business journalist, author, entrepreneur and founder of SheThePeople TV
- Shinjini Kumar: Corporate leader, entrepreneur and co-founder of SALT, a financial services app focused on women
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