Jahnavi Barua

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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.^[where?]^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography[edit]

Next Door (Penguin India, 2008)
Rebirth (Penguin India, 2010)
Undertow (Penguin India, 2020)

Nominations and awards[edit]

2020 JCB Prize for Literature longlist
2012 Commonwealth Book Prize shortlist^{[citation needed]}
2011 Man Asian Literary Prize, shortlist, Rebirth^{[citation needed]}
2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, longlist.^{[citation needed]}
2006 Short Fiction contest hosted by Unisun Publishers (Second prize, Children's fiction category).^{[citation needed]}
2005 Short Fiction contest hosted by Unisun Publishers^{[citation needed]}
Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing^{[citation needed]}

References[edit]

↑ 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[edit]

Profile, tribuneindia.com; accessed 6 April 2015.

External links[edit]

Jahnavi Barua at Penguin India

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[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.

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