The three-day literature festival took place from November 7 to November 9 in Mumbai at the NCPA. Photo Courtesy: Special Arrangement
Marking its 16th year, this edition saw over 120 novelists, poets, writers, thinkers and performers from 15 countries participated in over 30 riveting sessions, ranging from poetry, fiction, gender, law, sexuality, science, technology, current affairs, social change, health and wellness, inclusivity, history, business
The three-day festival also saw The Great Debate, Book in Focus, the Literary Quiz, 7 workshops, 11 book launches, Picnic with Playwrights, Poetry in the Park, Mumbai Bookies, and mesmerising theatre and musical performances by international artistes.
The Little Festival for ages 8-14 held in parallel saw more than 2500 children from a number of schools across Mumbai including NGOs, attending imaginatively curated sessions and storytelling on subjects as wide-ranging as nature, music, environment, philately, and even dental hygiene
The Godrej Lifetime Achievement Award was conferred on acclaimed Hindi novelist and poet Vinod Kumar Shukla. Meanwhile renowned Gujarati poet Sitanshu Yashaschandra presided as the Godrej Poet Laureate from the opening day of the festival
While the Godrej Literature Live! Book of the Year - Fiction was awarded to Island by Sujit Saraf, Non-Fiction was given Golwalkar: The Myth Behind the Man, The Man Behind the Machine by Dhirendra K Jha.
The Godrej Literature Live! Best First Book - Fiction was given to The Fertile Earth by Ruthvika Rao and Non-Fiction to The Lucky Ones: A Memoir by Zara Chowdhary.
The Godrej Literature Live! Business Book of the Year was given to The Money Trap: Grand Fortunes and Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble by Alok Sama (Pan Macmillan India), and The Godrej Publisher of the Year was Penguin Random House India
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