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