Tata Literature Live MyStory Contest Voting 2016 : Seventh Mumbai International Literary Festival LitFest

Organization : Tata Literature Live
Event Name : The Seventh Mumbai International Literary Festival 2016 (The Mumbai LitFest)
Event Date : Thursday, 17th November to Sunday, 20th November 2016
Contest Name : MyStory Contest Voting 2016
Voting Last Date : 2nd October 2016

Website : http://2016.tatalitlive.in/
Vote Now : http://2016.tatalitlive.in/mystory-contest/

The Mumbai LitFest:

Tata Literature Live! has, over the years, hosted some of the most inspiring litterateurs from around the world. The participant list for the 2016 edition of the festival will be shared soon.

Related : Tata Literature Live MyStory Contest 2015 : www.contest.net.in/1905.html

MyStory Contest Voting:
Read your (short) work of literature at the Seventh edition of the International Mumbai Literary Festival. Entry has closed now. Total entries 1849 . Voting starts from 26th September & ends on 2nd Otober 2016

Awards:
Poet Laureate Award:
** Poetry is often believed to be the highest form of literature. Where a picture can convey a thousand words, a poem can evoke a thousand pictures. TATA Literature Live’s Poet Laureate Award is our effort to honour the work of some of today’s most accomplished and signifcant poets.
** Vikram Seth, a master of the craft, received this award at the festival’s 2015 edition, regaling the audience with an intimate rendition of his work thereafter.

Lifetime Achievement Award:
** What we know as ‘literature’ is the combined effort of some of the greatest writers across the world. Recognising these laureates, the Landmark Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award was instituted to celebrate and salute outstanding contribution to the Indian literary space.
** In previous years, the award has been won by VS Naipaul, Mahashweta Devi, Khushwant Singh and MT Vasudevan Nair. Celebrated bi-lingual author Kiran Nagarkar is the most recent recipient of the award.

Business Book Award:
** Exploring the intersection between two seemingly oppposite worlds, business writing has slowly but surely grown into a strong niche of its own. The Tata Literature Live! Business Book Award honors the best business writing in the Indian space.
** Mihir Sharma and TT Ram Mohan both tied for this award for their books ‘Restart: The last chance for the Indian economy’ and ‘Rethinc: What’s Broke at Today’s Corporations and How to Fix It’ respectively in 2015.

First Book Award – Fiction:
Nominees:
** The Devourers by Indra Das (Penguin/Random House)
** Red Maize by Danesh Rana (HarperCollins)
** Don’t Let Him Know by Sandip Roy (Bloomsbury)

First Book Award – Non Fiction:
Nominees:
** Midnight’s Furies: The deadly legacy of India’s Partition by Nisid Hajari (Penguin/Random House)
** Farthest Field: An Indian story of the Second World War by Raghu Karnad (Harper Collins)
** The Seasons Of Trouble: Life amid the ruins of Sri Lanka’s civil war by Rohini Mohan (HarperCollins)

Book of the year – Fiction:
Nominees :
** Until The Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata by Karthika Nair (HarperCollins)
** Two Years Eight Months And Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie (Penguin/Random House)
** The Book Of Gold Leaves by Mirza Waheed (Penguin/Random House)

Book of the year – Non-Fiction:
Nominees:
** The Spirit Of Indian Painting: Close encounters with 101 great works, 1100-1900 by B N Goswamy (Penguin/Random House)
** The Raj At War: A people’s history of India’s Second World War by Yasmin Khan (Penguin/Random House)
** Gita Press And The Making Of Hindu India by Akshaya Mukul (HarperCollins)

The Big Little Book Award:
The Parag initiative of Tata Trusts in partnership with LiteratureLive! The Mumbai Litfest this month launched and are inviting nominations for the Big Little Book Award that will recognize and award significant contribution to children’s literature by an author and an illustrator. The language for authors will rotate every year, beginning with Marathi for 2016. The idea is to encourage writing in Indian languages.

Schedule:
Tata Literature Live! 2016 will take place in 2 venues – NCPA and Prithvi Theatre, in Mumbai. The 2016 schedule will be shared soon. To get it first, follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.