Jahnavi Barua
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Assam
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Jahnavi Barua is an Indian author from Assam. She is the author of Next Door, a 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?][5]
A Rebirth is not so much about parenting as it is about the unique bond between mother and child.[6] Undertow is a novel about migration, exile and loneliness in a post-pandemic world.[7]
- Next Door (Penguin India, 2008) ISBN 978-0143064527
- Rebirth (Penguin India, 2010) ISBN 978-0143414551
- Undertow (Penguin India, 2020) ISBN 978-0670093731
Nominations and awards
- 2005 Short Fiction contest hosted by Unisun Publishers[citation needed]
- 2006 Short Fiction contest hosted by Unisun Publishers (Second prize, Children's fiction category).[citation needed]
- 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, longlist.[citation needed]
- 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize, shortlist, Rebirth[8]
- 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize shortlist[9]
- 2020 JCB Prize for Literature longlist[10]
- 2021 AutHer Awards for her work, Undertow (2020)[11]
- Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing[12]
