The esteemed Tata Literature Live! Literary Awards have unveiled their shortlists today. Every year, at the Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest, prizes for books released in the previous year are given out. The awards are intended to honour and promote literary brilliance in all genres, for both seasoned and up-and-coming authors. At the Festival's gala finale, which takes place on Sunday, October 29 at 8 p.m. at the Tata Theatre, NCPA, Mumbai, the winners will be announced.

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 Shortlist (in alphabetical order)

  1. Everything The Light Touches by Janice Pariat (HarperCollins Publishers)
  2. The Education Of Yuri by Jerry Pinto (Speaking Tiger Books)
  3. The Secret Of More by Tejaswini Apte-Rahm (Aleph Book Company)
    Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year - Non-Fiction Shortlist (in alphabetical order)
  4. Raw Umber by Sara Rai (Westland Books)
  5. The Song Of The Cell: An exploration of medicine and the new human by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Penguin Random House India)
  6. Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The many lives of Agyeya by Akshaya Mukul (Penguin Random House India)
    Tata Literature Live! First Book Award - Fiction Shortlist (in alphabetical order)
  7. Shurjo's Clan by Iffat Nawaz (Penguin Random House India)
  8. The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff (HarperCollins Publishers)
  9. The Woman Who Climbed Trees by Smriti Ravindra (HarperCollins Publishers)
    Tata Literature Live! First Book Award Non - Fiction Shortlist (in alphabetical order)
  10. Courting India: England, Mughal India and the origins of Empire by Nandini Das (Bloomsbury India)
  11. Marginlands: Indian landscapes on the brink by Arati Kumar-Rao (Pan Macmillan India/Picador)
  12. Vajpayee: The ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924-1977 by Abhishek Choudhary (Pan Macmillan India/Picador)
    Tata Literature Live! Business Book of the Year Shortlist (in alphabetical order)
  13. Against All Odds: The IT story of India by S. Gopalakrishnan, N. Dayasindhu, Krishnan Narayan (Penguin Random House India)
  14. The Tech Phoenix: Satyam's 100-day turnaround by T.N. Manoharan, V. Pattabhi Ram (Rupa Publications)
  15. Working To Restore: Why we do business in the regenerative era by Esha Chhabra (Penguin Random House India)
    Juries for the awards:
    Each award category is decided by an eminent jury. The juries for 2023 were as follows:
    Fiction: