The Godrej Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award 2025 seeks to honour a writer with a sustained exceptional body of work over a lifetime. This year’s award will be presented to Vinod Kumar Shukla, one of India’s most renowned Hindi novelists and poets. The Godrej Literature Live! Literary Awards, 2025, celebrate excellence in writing that shapes how we see our world. Honouring the finest new and established voices in fiction, non-fiction, and business writing, the awards recognise craft, originality, and the power of words to inform, inspire, and transform.