The longlists for the Godrej Literature Live! Mumbai LitFest Literary Awards for Fiction, Nonfiction and Business have been announced. The winners will be named at the Festival’s finale on November 9. The LitFest will be held from November 7 to 9 the NCPA at Nariman Point.
Here are the shortlisted books in each category:
Fiction: Book of the year
Island, Sujit Saraf
Rising Sons, Kavery Nambisan
The Last Knot, Shabir Ahmad Mir
Fiction: Best first book
Hot Water, Bhavika Govil
The Dead Know Nothing, Kishore Ram
The Fertile Earth, Ruthvika Rao
Nonfiction: Book of the year
Golwalkar: The Myth Behind the Man, The Man Behind the Machine, Dhirendra K Jha
The Identity Project: The Unmaking of a Democracy, Rahul Bhatia
The Undying Light: A Personal History of Independent India, Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Nonfiction: Best first book
Rama Bhima Soma: Cultural Investigations into Modern Karnataka, Srikar Raghavan
The Lost Heer: Women in Colonial Punjab, Harleen Singh
The Lucky Ones: A Memoir, Zara Chowdhary
Business book of the year
A Fly on the RBI Wall: An Insider’s View of the Central Bank, Alpana Killawala
Ratan Tata: A Life, Thomas Mathew
The Money Trap: Grand Fortunes and Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble, Alok Sama
