Jahnavi Barua
Jahnavi Barua is an Indian author from Assam. She is the author of Next Door, a critically acclaimed collection of short stories set in Assam with insurgency as the background.[1][2] Barua lives in Bangalore, and obtained her MBBS at Gauhati Medical College but does not practice medicine.[3][4] She studied creative writing in the United Kingdom.
Bibliography
- Next Door (Penguin India, 2008)
- Rebirth (Penguin India, 2010)
- Undertow (Penguin India, 2020)
Nominations and awards
- 2020 JCB Prize for Literature longlist
- 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize shortlist
- 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize, shortlist, Rebirth
- 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, longlist.
- 2006 Short Fiction contest hosted by Unisun Publishers (Second prize, Children's fiction category).
- 2005 Short Fiction contest hosted by Unisun Publishers
- Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing
References
- Writing a New Story, telegraphindia.com; accessed 6 April 2015.
- Into a Closed Terrain, Hindu.com; accessed 6 April 2015.
- Mary Mathew, Annie Chandy Mathew.Winners: a collection of prize-winning poems and stories (vol 2), books.google.co.in; accessed 6 April 2015.
- Freshly Pressed, expressindia.com; accessed 6 April 2015.
External links
- Profile, tribuneindia.com; accessed 6 April 2015.
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