Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award
The Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award has been constituted to recognise noteworthy work in the Indian literary space across fiction and the non-fiction genre.
The Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award – Fiction was presented to Anuradha Roy for her book ‘All The Lives We Never Lived’
Anuradha Roy receiving the Tata Literature Live! Fiction Book Of the Year Award for her book ‘All The Lives We Never Lived’ from the fiction jury members Soumya Bhattacharya, author and managing editor, Hindustan Times and Georgina Brown, theatre critic and journalist.
The Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award – Non-Fiction went to ‘The RSS: A view to the inside’ by Walter K. Andersen and Shridhar D. Damle
In the Fiction category, the shortlisted nominees were (in alphabetical order):
| Book | Author | Publishing House | |
| All the Lives We Never Lived | Anuradha Roy | Hachette | |
| Night of Happiness | Tabish Khair | Pan Macmillan | |
| The Nine-Chambered Heart | Janice Pariat | HarperCollins |
In the Non-Fiction category, the shortlisted nominees were (in alphabetical order):
| Book | Author | Publishing House | |
| Coromandel: A personal history of South India | Charles Allen | Hachette | |
| The Bengalis: A portrait of a community | Sudeep Chakravarti | Aleph | |
| The RSS: A view to the inside | Walter K. Andersen and Shridhar D. Damle | Penguin Random House |
JURIES FOR THE AWARDS
Each award category is decided by an eminent jury.
This year, the fiction categories for the Tata Literature Live! First Book Award and Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award were judged by:
- Carol Andrade, senior journalist, Dean of St Pauls Institute of Communication Education
- Georgina Brown, theatre critic and journalist
- Shefali Balsari-Shah, former Head, English Dept, St Xavier’s College
- Soumya Bhattacharya, author and Managing Editor, Hindustan Times
- Anil Dharker, Founder-Director, Tata Literature Live!
The non-fiction categories for the aforementioned awards were judged by:
- Anuradha SenGupta, broadcast journalist
- Bunty Chand, CEO, Asia Society India
- Rudrangshu Mukherjee, author and Professor of History and Chancellor of Ashoka University
- Shyam Benegal, film-maker
- Anil Dharker, Founder-Director, Tata Literature Live!