Announcing the Mumbai LitFest 2013 at the National Centre for Performing Arts, Tata Group brand custodian and chief ethics officer Mukund Rajan here said over 120 writers and thinkers from across the world and the country will be present at the four-day event.
Singh will be honoured with the Landmark Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award. Landmark is the book retailing venture of the Tatas.
Rajan also announced the short list for the awardees for the first book award.
The awards will be given for fiction & non-fiction. In the fiction category, the shortlisted authors are Chetan Raj Shrestha, a 34 year old architect from Gangtok, Sikkim, for his book, 'The King's Harvest'.
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The Non-fiction category shortlist include Ananya Vajpeyi, a senior fellow with the American Institute of Indian Studies, for her book, 'Righteous Republic'; Saba Naqvi, political editor of the Outlook magazine for 'In Good Faith'; and Peter Smetacek, an authority on Indian butterflies and moths, for 'Butterflies on the roof of the world'.
Rajan said reputed author Mark Tully, ad man Santosh Desai, journalist Dileep Padgaonkar, Landmark's Ashutosh Pandey and festival director Anil Dharker are the jury.
Also, as part of the centenary of the Nobel Prize to Rabindranath Tagore, the festival will launch Harvard professor Sugata Bose's new translation of the Gitanjali.