The shortlists 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 a special ceremony in Mumbai on October 25.
Here are the shortlists in each category:
Fiction
Railsong, Rahul Bhattacharya
The Elsewhereans, Jeet Thayil
The Greatest Game: Being The Further Adventures of Kimball O’Hara, Stephen Alter
Nonfiction
A Sixth of Humanity: Independent India’s Development Odyssey, Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian
Scamlands, Snigdha Poonam
The Hindi Heartland: A Study, Ghazala Wahab,
First book – Fiction
Good Arguments, Deepika Arwind
Lonely People Meet, Sayantan Ghosh
The Sirens of September, Zeenat Khan
First book – Nonfiction
Dapaan: Tales from Kashmir’s Conflict, Ipsita Chakravarty
The Liver Doctor, Cyriac Abby Philips
Wild Wild East: Exiled Americans, Enslaved Indians and the Systemic Abuse of the H-1B Visa Programme, Tanul Thakur
Business book
BuildIt: Building Blinkit in an Evolving India, Albinder Singh Dhindsa
Running Behind Lakshmi: The Search for Wealth in India’s Stock Market, Adil Rustomjee
Tatyasaheb: The Story of a Bombay Entrepreneur, Tejaswini Apte-Rahm