Writer Kiran Nagarkar received the Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award 2015. Credit: Twitter
The longlists for five of the ten literary awards for the seventh edition of the Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest were announced on Thursday, November 3.
The literary event in Mumbai will bring together 130 authors and thinkers from over 30 countries and is set to be held from November 17-20 at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Nariman Point and from November 19-20 at the Prithvi Theatre in Juhu.
The festival is geared towards recognising and promoting literary talent across different genres of literature among emerging as well as distinguised writers.
Among the awards for which the longlists were announced on November 3 are – Tata Literature Live! First Book Award for Fiction and Non-Fiction, the Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award for Fiction and Non-Fiction and the Tata Literature Live! Business Book of the Year Award.
The longlisted nominees in the fiction category of Tata Literature Live! First Book Award include:
| Book | Author | Publishing House |
| Belonging | Umi Sinha | Speaking Tiger Books |
| Neon Noon | Tanuj Solanki | HarperCollins |
| Savithri’s Special Room | Manu Bhattathiri | HarperCollins |
| Swimmer Among the Stars | Kanishk Tharoor | Aleph Book Company |
| The High Priestess Never Marries | Sharanya Manivannan | HarperCollins |
| The Village of Pointless Conversation | Kersi Khambatta | HarperCollins |
Nominees in the non-fiction category include:
| Book | Author | Publishing House |
| Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court | Audrey Truschke | Penguin Random House |
| Framed as a Terrorist: My 14-year Struggle to Prove My Innocence | Mohammad Aamir Khan with Nandita Haksar | Speaking Tiger Books |
| Half-Lion: How Narasimha Rao Transformed India | Vinay Sitapati | Penguin Random House |
| Mother, Where’s My Country? – Looking for Light in the Darkness of Manipur | Anubha Bhonsle | Speaking Tiger Books |
| The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore | Manu S Pillai | HarperCollins |
| This Unquiet Land: Stories from India’s Fault Lines | Barkha Dutt | Aleph Book Company |
The longlisted nominees in the fiction category of The Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award include:
| Book | Author | Publishing House |
| All Quiet in Vikaspuri | Sarnath Banerjee | HarperCollins |
| Jihadi Jane | Tabish Khair | Penguin Random House |
| Jinnah Often Came to our House | Kiran Doshi | Westland |
| Selection Day | Aravind Adiga | HarperCollins |
| The Association of Small Bombs | Karan Mahajan | HarperCollins |
| The Private Life of Mrs Sharma | Ratika Kapur | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Nominees in the non-fiction category include:
| Book | Author | Publishing House |
| A Life in Shadow: The Secret Story of A.C.N. Nambiar, The Mysterious Anti-Colonial Hero | Vappala Balachandran | Roli Books |
| A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India | Josy Joseph | HarperCollins |
| India’s War: The Making of Modern South Asia 1939-1945 | Srinath Raghavan | Penguin Random House |
| No One Else: A Personal History of Outlawed Love and Sex | Siddharth Dube | HarperCollins |
| The Gene: An Intimate History | Siddhartha Mukherjee | Penguin Random House |
| The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable | Amitav Ghosh | Penguin Random House |
Longlisted books for The Tata Literature Live! Business Book of the Year Award include:
| Book | Author | Publishing House |
| Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilisation | Parag Khanna | Hachette |
| Grassroots Innovation: Minds on the Margin Are Not Marginal Minds | Anil K Gupta | Penguin Random House |
| Office Chai, Planter’s Brew | S. Muthiah and Ranjitha Ashok | Westland |
| Own It: Leadership Lessons from Women Who Do | Aparna Jain | HarperCollins |
| Six Lenses: Vignettes of Success, Career and Relationships | R. Gopalakrishnan | Rupa Publications |
| The Golden Tap: The Inside Story of Hyper-Funded Indian Startups | Kashyap Deorah | Roli Books |
| The Unusual Billionaires | Saurabh Mukherjea | Penguin Random House |
This year the organisers have also introduced three new awards to recognise excellence in the literature-for-children category and playwriting.
The winners are set to be announced on November 20 at NCPA.
(With PTI inputs)