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)

Nominations and awards
  • 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

See also

References
  1. Writing a New Story, telegraphindia.com; accessed 6 April 2015.
  2. Into a Closed Terrain, Hindu.com; accessed 6 April 2015.
  3. Mary Mathew, Annie Chandy Mathew.Winners: a collection of prize-winning poems and stories (vol 2), books.google.co.in; accessed 6 April 2015.
  4. Freshly Pressed, expressindia.com; accessed 6 April 2015.
  • Profile, tribuneindia.com; accessed 6 April 2015.


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