Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest announced its 2024 awards on November 17, the festival’s final day. The winners included two books in the fiction book of the year category, alongside awards for nonfiction, first books and business writing. Bloomsbury India was named Publisher of the Year; Arvind Krishna Mehrotra was named Poet Laureate; and Odia writer Pratibha Ray received the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Literature Live! 2024 book award winners
The festival’s book awards covered fiction, nonfiction, first books and business writing. Scroll.in’s report names the winning authors and publishers as follows:
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| Award | Winner or book | Author | Publisher named in the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fiction book of the year | History’s Angel | Anjum Husain | Bloomsbury India |
| Fiction book of the year | The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao | Lindsay Pereira | Penguin India |
| Nonfiction book of the year | Intertidal: A Coast and Marsh Diary | Yuvan Aves | Bloomsbury India |
| Fiction best first book | Hurda | Atharva Pandit | Bloomsbury India |
| Nonfiction best first book | From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada | Sudha Bharadwaj | Juggernaut |
| Business book of the year | The Learning Trap: How Byju’s Took Indian Edtech for a Ride | Pradip K Saha | Juggernaut |
The report lists both History’s Angel and The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao as winners of fiction book of the year. It does not specify whether the award was a tie or describe another shared-award format.
Publisher of the Year
Bloomsbury India received Publisher of the Year. The report also credits the publisher with three books on the winners list: History’s Angel, Intertidal: A Coast and Marsh Diary and Hurda.
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Who was named Poet Laureate?
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra was named Literature Live!’s 2024 Poet Laureate. Scroll.in lists Nine Enclosures, Distance in Statute Miles, Middle Earth and The Transfiguring Places among his works. It describes his recent publication as comprising The Book of Rahim and Other Poems, Ghalib, A Diary and Book of Lahore.
Who received the Lifetime Achievement Award?
Odia writer Pratibha Ray received the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award. The Scroll.in report traces several of her works: her debut novel, Barsha Basanta Baishakha, was published in 1974; Yajnaseni followed in 1984, telling Draupadi’s story in the Mahabharata through the perspective of a modern Indian woman with an individual identity; and Mahamoha (2012) retells the Ramayana from Ahalya’s point of view.
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About the announcement
The awards were announced on November 17, 2024, the final day of Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest. Scroll.in published its report the following day, November 18. Its account names previous Poet Laureates including Mamang Dai, Gieve Patel, Adil Jussawalla, Javed Akhtar, K Satchidanandan, Jayanta Mahapatra, Gulzar, Keki Daruwalla, Vikram Seth and Joy Goswami. Previous Lifetime Achievement Award recipients named in the report include C S Lakshmi, Mahesh Elkunchwar, Anita Desai, Ruskin Bond, Shanta Gokhale, Mark Tully, Girish Karnad, Amitav Ghosh, Kiran Nagarkar, M T Vasudevan Nair, Khushwant Singh, V S Naipaul and Mahashweta Devi.
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