Both winners of the Tata Literature Live's 'First Book Award' will be in Goa for the 5th anniversary edition of Goa Arts + Literature Festival (December 4-7, free registration is open at goaartlitfest.com)
While the first book award in the fiction category went to debut novelist Mahesh Rao for 'The Smoke is Rising', the same award for the non-fiction category went to 'A Southern Music: The Karnatik Story' by T M Krishna: http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/tata-lit-fest-honours-mt-vasudevan-nair-poet-joy-goswami-114110200727_1.html The Smoke is Rising by Mahesh Rao (http://www.maheshrao.info) was also nominated by The Guardian for its Not The Booker Prize: http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/sep/08/not-the-booker-prize-louis-armand, cited for "different elements [which] combine to form a detailed and intriguing map of a place and record of a time. It all forms into a single overarching character: the city of Mysore (described delightfully as "India's second cleanest city and home of many talented snooker players".) A Southern Music: The Karnatik Story by the electrifying vocalist T M Krishna (http://www.tmkrishna.com) has been described by Amartya Sen as "one of the best books I have ever read', and "as brave and intelligent as its artistic author himself...a must have for anybody even remotely associated with music and not just people who are pursuing it" (http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/review-book-review-a-southern-music-the-karnatik-story-1984759) -- #2, Second Floor, Navelkar Trade Centre, Panjim, Goa Cellphone 9326140754 Office (0832) 242 0785