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:

Island , Sujit Saraf

The Fertile Earth , Ruthvika Rao

Golwalkar: The Myth Behind the Man, The Man Behind the Machine , Dhirendra K Jha

The Lucky Ones: A Memoir, Zara Chowdhary

The Money Trap: Grand Fortunes and Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble , Alok Sama

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