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'''Shahnaz Habib''' is an Indian essayist, fiction writer, travel writer, and translator based in the United States of America. She teaches writing at [[Bay Path University]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baypath.edu/academics/faculty-directory/biography/shahnaz-habib/|title=Faculty Directory {{!}} Bay Path University|website=www.baypath.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-10-25}}</ref> and [[The New School]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newschool.edu/lang/faculty/Shahnaz-Habib/|title=Shahnaz Habib - Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts|website=www.newschool.edu|access-date=2018-10-25}}</ref> and works as a consultant for the [[United Nations]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://agnimag.wordpress.com/tag/shahnaz-habib/|title=Shahnaz Habib – the AGNI blog|website=agnimag.wordpress.com|language=en|access-date=2018-10-25}}</ref> In 2018, she received the [[JCB Prize|JCB Prize for Literature]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Habib grew up in [[Kerala]], [[South India]] and is currently based in [[New York City|Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]]. Her poem ''[[Of Hypocrisy and Cheekbones]]'' won the First Prize in the Ninth ''National Poetry Competition'' in 2000 organized by [[The Poetry Society (India)]] in collaboration with [[British Council]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indianpoetry.org/compititions9.htm|title=Ninth National Poetry Competition - ''Prize winning poems''}}</ref> Her short story "Something Special About Sayyida" was selected for the anthology ''21 under 40.''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3aJ3DAAAQBAJ&q=%22something+special+about+sayyida%22&pg=PT70|title=21 Under 40: New Stories for a New Generation|last=Roy|first=Anita|date=2014-07-10|publisher=Zubaan|isbn=9789383074839|language=en}}</ref> Her essays, travel writing, and criticism have appeared in ''[[The Guardian]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/shahnazhabib|title=Shahnaz Habib|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-10-25}}</ref> ''[[The New Yorker]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/shahnaz-habib|title=Shahnaz Habib {{!}} The New Yorker|website=The New Yorker|language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-25}}</ref> ''[[Afar (magazine)|Afar]]'', the anthology ''Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/91139/twentysomething-essays-by-twentysomething-writers-by-edited-by-matt-kellogg-and-jillian-quint/9780812975666/|title=Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com|website=PenguinRandomhouse.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-25}}</ref> and many other publications.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.laundryliterarymagazine.com/about/|title=About|website=L a u n d r y|language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://muckrack.com/shahnaz-habib|title=Shahnaz Habib {{!}} The Guardian, The New Yorker, Mint Journalist {{!}} Muck Rack|website=muckrack.com|language=en|access-date=2018-10-25}}</ref> Her work has twice been named to the Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction list by the ''[[The Best American Essays|Best American Essays]]'' series.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e9ozCwAAQBAJ&q=%22shahnaz+habib%22+%22best+american%22&pg=PA315|title=The Best American Essays 2016|last1=Franzen|first1=Jonathan|last2=Atwan|first2=Robert|date=2016-10-04|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=9780544812178|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y2M6DwAAQBAJ&q=%22shahnaz+habib%22+%22best+american%22&pg=PA294|title=The Best American Essays 2017|last1=Jamison|first1=Leslie|last2=Atwan|first2=Robert|date=2017-10-03|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=9780544817333|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Awards==<br />
Her English translation of the novel ''Jasmine Days'', from the [[Malayalam]] original by the author [[Benyamin (writer)|Benyamin]], won the 2018 [[JCB Prize|JCB Prize for Literature]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thejcbprize.org/winner2018/index/2806361d-0c52-4c94-a207-993f47734595|title=Jasmine Days - Benyamin|website=thejcbprize.org|access-date=2018-10-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Meet Shahnaz Habib, whose debut translation has won the Rs 25-lakh JCB Prize for Literature |url=https://scroll.in/article/899291/meet-shahnaz-habib-whose-debut-translation-has-won-the-rs-25-lakh-jcb-prize-for-literature |website=scroll.in |publisher=scroll.in |accessdate=13 February 2020}}</ref> which each year recognizes a distinguished work of fiction by an Indian writer working in English or translated fiction by an Indian writer. <br />
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==See also==<br />
{{portal|Poetry}}<br />
* [[Indian English literature]]<br />
* [[Indian poetry]]<br />
* [[The Poetry Society (India)]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*''PaperPlanes'' (22/02/2019), [https://www.joinpaperplanes.com/blogs/interviews/shahnaz-habib/ Interview : Conversations with men and women of wit, humour and letters]<br />
* [http://poetrysplash.tripod.com/indiapoets.htm “Poetry Splash” – Select Indian poems]<br />
* [http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/shahnaz-habib “Apropos of Nothing” – Shahnaz Habib in ''The New Yorker'']<br />
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