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HarperCollins India won the prestigious ‘Publisher of the Year’ Award 2016 at the glittering Tata Literature Live! Awards function held at the NCPA in Mumbai. They also won the award in the best fiction and best non-fiction categories.

The recently concluded seventh edition of the four-day long Tata Lit Live! festival held from Nov 17-20, had over 130 celebrated writers and thinkers from around the globe gathered to recognise and promote literary talent across many genres of literature.

With multiple nominations in the Fiction and Non-Fiction categories, it was HarperCollins authors who bagged the award in both categories. The Tata Literature Book of the Year Award for Fiction was won by Aravind Adiga for his book Selection Day; while Manu Pillai won Best First Book in the non-fiction category for The Ivory Throne.

One of India’s most respected and celebrated poet and lyricist, Gulzar—also a HarperCollins author—was honoured with The Tata Literature Live! Poet Laureate Award; while the Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award was conferred upon acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh, another HarperCollins author.