Godrej Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest announces its 2026 book winners in five categories
The Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to novelist Irwin Allan Sealy. This year’s Poet Laureate is Gagan Gill.
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The winners for the Literature Live! Literary Awards for Fiction, Nonfiction and Business were announced on Sunday. The awards aim to recognise and encourage literary talent across genres, for both established and new writers.
This year’s Lifetime Achievement Award went to novelist Irwin Allan Sealy, while Hindi poet Gagan Gill was named this year’s Poet Laureate.
Westland Books won the Publisher of the Year award.
Here are the winners in each category:
Fiction book of the year: Railsong: A Novel, Rahul Bhattacharya, Bloomsbury India
Non-fiction book of the year: The Hindi Heartland: A Study, Ghazala Wahab
Fiction best first book: Good Arguments, Deepika Arwind
Nonfiction best first book: Wild Wild East: Exiled Americans, Enslaved Indians and the Systemic Abuse of the H-1B Visa Programme, Tanul Thakur
Business: Running Behind Lakshmi: The Search for Wealth in India's Stock Market, Adil Rustomjee
