The winners of the 2025 Mumbai LitFest book awards were announced on Sunday, November 9, at the festival in five categories across fiction, nonfiction, and business. Penguin Random House India has won the Publisher of the Year award.
The Lifetime Achievement Award was given to Hindi novelist and poet Vinod Kumar Shukla, while Gujarati poet Sitanshu Yashaschandra was awarded the Poet Laureate.
Here are the winners in each category:
Fiction: Book of the year – Island, Sujit Saraf
Fiction: Best first book – The Fertile Earth, Ruthvika Rao
Nonfiction: Book of the year – Golwalkar: The Myth Behind the Man, The Man Behind the Machine, Dhirendra K Jha
Nonfiction: Best first book – The Lucky Ones: A Memoir, Zara Chowdhary
Business book of the year – The Money Trap: Grand Fortunes and Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble, Alok Sama
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