HarperCollins\, Anuradha Roy\, Crabtree among Tata Literature Live award winners

HarperCollins, Anuradha Roy, Crabtree among Tata Literature Live award winners

Press Trust of India  |  Mumbai 

Roy and are among the winners of this year's Tata Literature Live awards, in which HarperCollins was named publisher of the year 2018.

Veteran won and renowned was named the laureate for 2018.

The awards were given on Sunday, the concluding day of the festival.

HarperCollins had also won the publisher award in 2016.

The judges in their citation said, "The Publisher of the Year Award is awarded to a publisher for both the publishing quality and the quantity of the books that make it to the longlist and the shortlist in the awards - and this year we had a clear and unanimous winner!"

On the win, HarperCollins said, "We are delighted. I want to thank all our authors, and the HarperCollins team especially, for being passionate and particular about how we publish our books."

The Business Book of the Year Award was won by Crabtree for "The Billionaire Raj: A journey through India's new gilded age" (HarperCollins).

In the race were "in a Driverless Car: How our will create the future" by and (HarperCollins) and "Reverse Innovation in Healthcare: How to make value-based delivery work" by and (Business Review Press).

Roy was named winner of the book of the year (fiction) award for her work "All The Lives We Never Lived" (Hachette) while the award for non-fiction was bagged by and for their book "The RSS: A view to the inside" (Penguin Random House).

The first book award for fiction was won by Shubhangi Swarup for "Latitudes of Longing" (HarperCollins) and in the non-fiction section, Prasenjit K Basu was the winner for his book "Asia Reborn: A continent rises from the ravages of colonialism and war to a new dynamism" (Aleph).

was jointly won by for her play "Watching You" and Sneh Sapru for "Hello Farmaish".

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First Published: Tue, November 20 2018. 18:40 IST