ANSWER: Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award
Explanation:
Amitav Ghosh has won the Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award for 2016 as per an announcement on 8th Nov 2016. - Ghosh is the Indian-American author best known for his English fiction work.
- He is an alumnus of The Doon School along with authors Vikram Seth and Ram Guha.
- He also received degrees from St. Stephen’s College, DU and DSE.
- He was also won the Inlaks Foundation scholarship.
- His debut novel launched in 1986 is The Circle of Reason.
- Other famous works in function include The Calcutta Chromosome,The Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace, Sea of Poppies and The Hungry Tide.
- Notable non-fiction writings include In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, At Large Burma, Countdown, The Imam and The Indian.
- His debut book The Circle of Reason won the Prix Medicis etranger, a top literary award in France.
- The Shadow Lines won the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Ananda Puraskar.
- Sea of Poppies was shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
- Government of India awarded him the the Padma Shri in 2007.
- The award was instituted by the festival to recognise and honour outstanding contributions in Indian literary space.
- Past recipients of the award include VS Naipaul, Khushwant Singh, Mahasweta Devi and MT Vasudevan Nair.
- Since its inception, TATA Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest has been constituted to honour achievements by emerging and accomplished Indian writers.
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