Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest announces longlists in five categories for its 2024 book awards

The longlists for the Literature Live! Literary Awards for Fiction, NonFiction and Business have been announced. The awards aim to recognise and encourage literary talent across genres, for both established and new writers. The winners will be announced at the Festival’s final day, November 17, in Mumbai.

Here are the longlists in each category:

Fiction

The jury for fiction comprises Deepa Adhikari, social entrepreneur and development communications consultant; Priyanka Sarkar, editor and translator; Rajrishi Singhal, author and journalist; Usha Subramaniam, former Professor of English Literature; and Shireen Mistry, Associate Festival Director of Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest.

Book of the year

• History’s Angel, Anjum Hasan (Bloomsbury India)

• Hurda, Atharva Pandit (Bloomsbury India)

• Loot, Tania James (Penguin Random House India)

• The Lady on the Horse and Other Secrets, Ramona Sen (Speaking Tiger)

• The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao, Lindsay Pereira (Penguin Random House India)

• The Witch in the Peepul Tree by Arefa Tehsin (HarperCollins Publishers)

Best first book

• Chronicle of an Hour and a Half, Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari (Context / Westland Books)

• Cockatoo, Yashraj Goswami (Pan Macmillan India)

• General Firebrand and His Red Atlas, Tathagata Bhattacharya (Seagull Books)

• Hurda, Atharva Pandit (Bloomsbury India)

• The Sea Elephants, Shastri Akella (Penguin Random House India)

• Western Lane, Chetna Maroo (Picador/Pan Macmillan India)

Nonfiction

The jury for nonfiction comprises Abhay Sardesai, educator and writer; Chandrahas Choudhury, author; Kalpana Sharma, journalist and author; Sudhakar Solomonraj, professor and environmentalist; and Tina Nagpaul, filmmaker and Associate...

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