The Tata Literature Live! Mumbai Litfest presented the winners of the Book of the Year - Fiction, Book of the Year - Nonfiction, First Book - Fiction, First Book - Nonfiction, Business Book of the Year, and Publisher of the Year on Sunday, October 29. Along with these, the Lifetime Achievement Award, Poet Laureate Award, and The Rotary Writing for Peace Award were given for accomplishments in a lifetime of writing.

The complete list of winners is as follows:

Books and publishing awards

Book of the Year – Fiction: The Secret Of More, Tejaswini Apte-Rahm (Aleph Book Company)

Book of the Year – Nonfiction: Raw Umber, Sara Rai (Westland Books)

First Book – Fiction: The Woman Who Climbed Trees, Smriti Ravindra (HarperCollins Publishers)

First Book – Nonfiction: Vajpayee: The Ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924-1977, Abhishek Choudhary (Pan Macmillan India/Picador)

Business Book of the Year: Working To Restore: Why We Do Business in the Regenerative Era, Esha Chhabra (Penguin Random House India)

Publisher of the Year: Pan Macmillan India

Awards in writing

Lifetime Achievement Award: CS Lakshmi (Ambai)

Poet Laureate Award: Mamang Dai

The Rotary Writing for Peace Award: Sanjoy Hazarika