Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest announces Literary Awards Shortlists for 2023

Janice Pariat`s Everything The Light Touches is on the Fiction Shortlist for Book of the Year. Photo Courtesy: Mid-day file pic

Tata Literature Live! Literary Awards has announced the Shortlists for 2023 ahead of the festival. The awards are presented annually at the Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest, for books published during the year. The aim of the awards is to recognise and encourage literary talent across genres, for both established and new writers. The winners will be named at the grand finale of the Festival, which will be held on October 29 from 8pm onwards at the Tata Theatre, NCPA, Mumbai.

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)
1. Everything The Light Touches by Janice Pariat (HarperCollins Publishers)
2. The Education Of Yuri by Jerry Pinto (Speaking Tiger Books)
3. The Secret Of More by Tejaswini Apte-Rahm (Aleph Book Company)

Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year - Non-Fiction Shortlist (in alphabetical order)
1. Raw Umber by Sara Rai (Westland Books)
2. The Song Of The Cell: An exploration of medicine and the new human by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Penguin Random House India)
3. Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The many lives of Agyeya by Akshaya Mukul (Penguin Random House India)

Tata Literature Live! First Book Award - Fiction Shortlist (in alphabetical order)
1. Shurjo's Clan by Iffat Nawaz (Penguin Random House India)
2. The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff (HarperCollins Publishers)
3. The Woman Who Climbed Trees by Smriti Ravindra (HarperCollins Publishers)

Tata Literature Live! First Book Award Non - Fiction Shortlist (in alphabetical order)
1. Courting India: England, Mughal India and the origins of Empire by Nandini Das (Bloomsbury India)
2. Marginlands: Indian landscapes on the brink by Arati Kumar-Rao (Pan Macmillan India/Picador)
3. Vajpayee: The ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924-1977 by Abhishek Choudhary (Pan Macmillan India/Picador)

Tata Literature Live! Business Book of the Year Shortlist (in alphabetical order)
1. Against All Odds: The IT story of India by S. Gopalakrishnan, N. Dayasindhu, Krishnan Narayan (Penguin Random House India)
2. The Tech Phoenix: Satyam's 100-day turnaround by T.N. Manoharan, V. Pattabhi Ram (Rupa Publications)
3. Working To Restore: Why we do business in the regenerative era by Esha Chhabra (Penguin Random House India)

Juries for the awards:
Each award category is decided by an eminent jury. The juries for 2023 were as follows:

Fiction:
1. Anuja Chauhan, author
2. Anirudh Kanisetti, author
3. Deepa Gahlot, Columnist, critic and author
4. Shireen Quadri, publisher and columnist
5. Shireen Mistry, associate festival director, Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest

Non-Fiction:
1. Arun Katiyar, communications consultant and author
2. Deepika Sorabjee, head, arts & culture, Tata Trusts
3. Sanjukta Sharma, author and columnist
4. Taran N. Khan, journalist and author
5. Tina Nagpaul, filmmaker and associate festival director, Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest

Business:
1. Khozem Merchant, columnist and business leader
2. Poornima Dore, economist and business leader
3. Ruchira Chaudhary, author, consultant and executive coach
4. Shilpa Kumar, business leader and impact investor
5. Tamal Bandyopadhyay, columnist and author

The festival will be held online from October 25 - October 26 and will continue on ground from October 27 - 29 at the NCPA at Nariman Point, St Pauls Institute of Communication Education Bandra and Title Waves bookstore in Bandra.