Frontlist | Tata Literature Live! goes virtual this year, announces longlist

Frontlist | Tata Literature Live! goes virtual this year, announces longlist
on Nov 03, 2020

Tata Literature Live, scheduled to be held from November 16-22, will take place in the virtual format this year. Recently, its longlist for the year 2020 was announced under separate categories like Fiction, Non-Fiction, First Book (Fiction), First Book (Non-Fiction), Business Book of the Year. The winners will be announced on November 22. Here is the list. Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year (Fiction) Longlist  * A People’s History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian (Penguin Random House) * Amnesty by Aravind Adiga (Pan Macmillan) * Girl Made of Gold by Gitanjali Kolanad (Juggernaut) *Memory of Light by Ruth Vanita (Penguin Random House) * Prelude to a Riot by Annie Zaidi (Aleph) *The Merman and the Book of Power: A Quissa by Musharraf Ali Farooqui (Aleph) Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year (Non-Fiction) Longlist  *A Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives of VK Krishna Menon by Jairam Ramesh (Penguin Random House) *A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of JBS Haldane by Samanth Subramanian (Simon & Schuster) *Akbar: The Great Mughal by Ira Mukhoty (Aleph) *The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple (Bloomsbury) *The Deoliwallahs: The True Story of the 1962 Chinese-Indian Internment by Joy Ma & Dilip D’Souza (Pan Macmillan) *Sebastian & Sons: A Brief History of Mrdangam Makers by TM Krishna (Westland) Tata Literature Live! First Book (Fiction) Longlist  *A Burning by Megha Majumdar (Penguin Random House) *Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara (Penguin Random House) *The Cliffhangers by Sabin Iqbal (Aleph) *These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light by Dharini Bhaskar (Hachette) *You Beneath Your Skin by Damyanti Biswas (Simon & Schuster) * What’s Wrong with You, Karthik? by Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (Pan Macmillan) Tata Literature Live! First Book (Non- Fiction) Longlist  *Flood and Fury: Ecological Devastation in the Western Ghats by Viju B (Penguin Random House) *Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul by Taran N Khan (Penguin Random House) *Tales from The Tail End: My Cancer Diary by Ananya Mukherjee (Speaking Tiger) *The Death Script: Dreams and Delusions in Naxal Country by Ashutosh Bhardwaj (HarperCollins) *The Great Repression: The Story of Sedition in India by Chitranshul Sinha (Penguin Random House) *The Lotus Years: Political Life in India in the Time of Rajiv Gandhi by Ashwini Bhatnagar (Hachette) Tata Literature Live! Business Book of the Year Longlist  * Excellence Has No Borders: How a Doctorpreneur Created a World-class Cancer Hospital Chain by BS Ajaikumar with Hemanth Gorur (Penguin Random House) * India Unlimited: Reclaiming the Lost Glory by Arvind Panagariya (HarperCollins) *Queeristan: LGBTQ Inclusion in the Workplace by Parmesh Shahani (Westland) *The CEO Factory: Management Lessons from Hindustan Unilever by Sudhir Sitapati (Juggernaut) *The Making of Hero: Four Brothers, Two Wheels and a Revolution that Shaped India by Sunil Kant Munjal (HarperCollins) *The Tech Whisperer: On Digital Transformation and the Technologies that Enable it by Jaspreet Bindra (Penguin Random House)