Mumbai, 9th November 2020: The
shortlists for the five prestigious literary awards conferred by Tata Literature
Live! The Mumbai LitFest in the Fiction, Non-Fiction and Business categories were
announced today. The longlists were announced last week. The Awards are
intended to recognise and encourage literary talent across genres, for both
established and new writers
As the LitFest is fully online this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the
winners will be announced at a virtual Awards Ceremony, which will be streamed
on Sunday 22 November. As has been the convention in previous years, this event
will formally close the Festival.
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)
(in
alphabetical order)
1.
Amnesty
by Aravind Adiga (Pan Macmillan)
2.
Girl
Made of Gold by Gitanjali Kolanad (Juggernaut)
3.
Memory
of Light by Ruth Vanita (Penguin Random House)
4. Prelude to a Riot by Annie Zaidi (Aleph
Tata
Literature Live! Book of the Year (Non-Fiction)
(in
alphabetical order)
1.
A Dominant Character:
The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane by Samanth
Subramanian (Simon & Schuster)
2. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage
of an Empire by William Dalrymple (Bloomsbury)
3. The Deoliwallahs: The True Story of the 1962 Chinese-Indian Internment
by Joy Ma & Dilip D'Souza (Pan Macmillan)
4. Sebastian & Sons: A Brief History of Mrdangam Makers by T.M. Krishna (Westland)
Tata
Literature Live! First Book (Fiction)
(in
alphabetical order)
1. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara (Penguin Random House)
2. The Cliffhangers by Sabin Iqbal (Aleph)
3. These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light by Dharini Bhaskar (Hachette)
Tata Literature Live! First Book (Non- Fiction)
(in alphabetical order)
1. Flood and Fury: Ecological Devastation in the Western Ghats by Viju B
(Penguin Random House)
2. Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul by Taran N. Khan (Penguin Random House)
3. The Death Script: Dreams and Delusions in Naxal Country by Ashutosh Bhardwaj (HarperCollins)
Tata
Literature Live! Business Book of the Year
(in
alphabetical order)
1.
Excellence Has No Borders: How a
Doctorpreneur Created a World-class Cancer Hospital Chain by B. S. Ajaikumar
with Hemanth Gorur (Penguin Random House)
2.
The CEO Factory: Management
Lessons from Hindustan Unilever by Sudhir Sitapati (Juggernaut)
3. The Making of Hero: Four Brothers, Two Wheels and a Revolution that Shaped India by Sunil Kant Munjal (HarperCollins)
Juries for
the awards
Each award category is decided by an eminent jury. The juries for 2020 were as follows:
Fiction
Jury
Ø
Ashwani Kumar: Author, poet and Professor at Tata Institute
of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
Ø Keki N Daruwalla: Poet, writer, former
IPS officer; recipient of the Padma Shri and Sahitya Akademi Award.
Ø Madhavi Menon: Author; Professor of
English and Director, Centre for Studies in Gender & Sexuality, Ashoka
University
Ø Shashi Baliga: Visiting faculty, Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai; Executive
Director, Literature Live
Non-Fiction
Jury
Ø Jonathan Gil Harris: Author, Professor and
Head of the Dept of English, Ashoka University.
Ø Manu Pillai: Historian,
award-winning author of four books and recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Yuva
Puraskar Award.
Ø Meena Menon: Independent journalist, author of
three books; former Bureau Chief of The Hindu, Mumbai.
Ø Naresh Fernandes: Founder & Editor,
Scroll; author; Poeisis Fellow at the Institute of Public Knowledge at New York University.
Ø Anil Dharker: Author of six books; columnist; Founder-Director,
Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFes
Business
Jury
Ø Anil Gupta: Grassroots innovation activist; Founder, Honey Bee Network; author; visiting faculty, IIM, Ahmedabad and IIT, Bombay, and a
Padma Shri awardee for management education.
Ø Kiran Karnik: Former President of
Nasscom; a key figure in the growth of India’s IT industry, Member of the
Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, and a Padma Shri awardee.
Ø Raghunath Mashelkar: One of India’s most renowned scientists; a technocrat, activist and
visionary who has been honoured with the Padma Vibhushan.
Ø Govindraj Ethiraj: Media executive and entrepreneur;
Founder & Director, BOOM & IndiaSpend.
Ø Mini Menon: Award-winning journalist and author; Co-Founder and Editor of Live History India.
For more details about Tata Literature Live! The
Mumbai LitFest 2020, please visit:
Website: https://tatalitlive.in/
Speakers: https://tatalitlive.in/speakers
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tatalitlive/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/litlivemumbai
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TataLitLive/
About
the Tata Group
Founded by Jamsetji Tata in 1868, the Tata group is a global enterprise, headquartered in India, comprising 30 companies across ten verticals. The group operates in more than 100 countries across six continents, with a mission 'To improve the quality of life of the communities we serve globally, through long-term stakeholder value creation based on Leadership with Trust’. Tata Sons is the principal investment holding company and promoter of Tata companies. Sixty-six percent of the equity share capital of Tata Sons is held by philanthropic trusts, which support education, health, livelihood generation and art and culture. In 2018-19, the revenue of Tata companies, taken together, was $113.0 billion (INR 792,710 crore). These companies collectively employ over 720,000 people. Each Tata company or enterprise operates independently under the guidance and supervision of its own board of directors. There are 28 publicly-listed Tata enterprises with a combined market capitalisation of over $160 billion (INR 11,10,308 crore) as on March 31, 2019.Companies include Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Tata Chemicals, Tata Consumer Products, Titan, Tata Capital, Tata Power, Tata Advanced Systems, Indian Hotels and Tata Communications.
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About
Literature Live!
Literature Live! founded by Anil Dharker in 2010, is dedicated to celebrating the written word in all its glorious forms. The Literature Live! Evenings held throughout the year - book launches, thought-provoking talks, literary evenings, author interactions, performances, book swaps, fiction and haiku contests - have offered Mumbai a chance to participate in the many joys of literature, and undefeated by the pandemic, has digitally extended this opportunity to a vast audience beyond the city. It also holds regular talks at colleges, and events for underprivileged school children.
Literature Live! organises the Tata
Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest, Mumbai's premier international literary
festival, which has become immensely popular because it looks at
literature in a way that complements the spirit of Mumbai: energetic,
cosmopolitan and all-inclusive. Now gearing up for its 11th
edition from 16th to 22nd November 2020, Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest, with
over a 100 writers, thinkers and performers from India and across
the world, will be on a digital platform for the first time, offering
“entry” to the Festival to a global audience along with its core attendees from
Mumbai.
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