NEW DELHI: The Tata Literature Live!  The Mumbai LiteratureFest announced the list of winners in all literary categories on Sunday. Playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for 2022 while Gieve Patel was the recipient of the 2022 Poet Laureate Award.

The 13th edition of Tata Literature Live! is being presented for the first time in a "hybrid" format that combines on-site and virtual components. The Mumbai LitFest featured 135 writers from 11 countries, 75 seminars, and a record-breaking 9 book launches. It was a great success. Over 1.5 million people have watched the two evenings of virtual seminars. 

After two years of being off-site due to the pandemic, the Festival returned. Excited audiences flocked to the on-site venues at the NCPA on Marine Drive, St. Paul's Institute, and Title Waves bookstore in Bandra, resulting in packed seminars and performances. Usha Uthup shocked the Tata Theatre by concluding her performance with thunderous medleys of some of her classic songs.

The following individuals received Tata Literature Live! Literary Awards in 2022: Tata Live Literature! The Map and the Scissors by Amit Majmudar, published by HarperCollins Publishers, was named the best book of the year in fiction.
Tata Live Literature! Anirudh Kanisetti's Lords of the Deccan: Southern India from the Chalukyas to the Cholas, published by Juggernaut Books, was named the best nonfiction book of the year.

Tata Live Literature! Gurnaik Johal's debut novel, We Move, is available from Hachette.

Tata Live Literature! Whole Numbers and Half-Truths, Rukmini S.'s debut nonfiction book, is available from Westland. Tata Live Literature! The Ambuja Story: How a Group of Ordinary Men Created an Extraordinary Company by Narotam Sekhsaria, published by HarperCollins Publishers, was named the best business book of the year.

Tata Live Literature! Harper Collins Publishers India has been named Publisher of the Year.

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