Longlist for the Tata First Book Award announced

New Delhi: The longlist for the Tata First Book Award 2012 was announced on Thursday. The winner will be announced on Sunday, November 4, at the Literature Live festival in Mumbai.

Following are the books which were named in the longlist:

The Wildings, Nilanjana S Roy, Aleph Book Company

The winner will be announced on Sunday, November 4, at the Literature Live festival in Mumbai.

The King In Exile, Sudha Shah, HarperCollins India

Days of Gold and Sepia, Yasmeen Premji, Harper Collins India

Taj Mahal Foxtrot, Naresh Fernandes, Roli

Decoding Rahul Gandhi, Aarthi Ramchandran, Westland

Breakout Nations, Ruchir Sharma, Penguin India

Two Fates, Judy Balany, Westland

Mumbaistan,

Piyush Jha, Rupa

31, Upendra Namburi, Westland

The Aryavarta Chronicles, Krishna Udayasankar, Hachette India

The winner will be announced on Sunday, November 4, at the Literature Live festival in Mumbai.

Literature Live! is first Mumbai LitFest was launched in November 2010. It took place over three days at the National Centre for Performing Arts. The response from Mumbaikars during the three-day fest was truly enthusiastic and it was clear from the level of audience participation and the widely expressed wish for more such events, that Literature Live! was answering a long felt need.

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