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Longlist for the Tata Literature Live!

First Book Award announced

Mumbai: Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest makes its third appearance at the NCPA from October 31 to November 4, 2012.

On Friday, October 26, 2012, the longlist for the Tata Literature Live! First Book Award was announced. The winner will be announced at the festival on Sunday, November 4, 2012 in Mumbai.

The books in the longlist:

Sr. No	Name of the Book	Author	Publishing House
1	The Wildings	Nilanjana Roy	Aleph
2	The King in Exile	Sudha Shah	Harper Collins
3	Days of Gold and Sepia	Yasmeen Premji	Harper Collins
4	Music of the Spinning Wheel	Sudheendra Kulkarni	Amaryllis
5	Taj Mahal Foxtrot	Naresh Fernandes	Roli
6	Decoding Rahul Gandhi	Aarthi Ramachandran	Westland
7	Breakout Nations	Ruchir Sharma	Penguin
8	Two Fates	Judy Balan	Westland
9	A Free Man	Aman Sethi	Random House
10	Mumbaistan	Piyush Jha	Rupa
11	31	Upendra Nambari	Westland
12	The Aryavarta Chronicles	Krishna Udayasankar	Hachette

The five-day literary festival will witness an intellectual smorgasbord of events ranging from panel discussions and book launches, poetry readings and lectures by experts, to open house conversations with eminent authors, publishers and literary agents,.

As in the past, entry to the festival will be free and on a first-come-first-served basis.

Tata Group is the title sponsor for the festival, supported by Landmark, Tata Steel and Land Rover. Details of this festival and program schedule are available on www.litlive.in

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