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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?][5]

This article has an unclear citation style. (April 2013)

A Rebirth is not so much about parenting as it is about the unique bond between mother and child. The particular period when the mother carries the unborn child is expressed beautifully in her literary work.[6]

Undertow is a novel about migration, exile and loneliness, all themes we will be struggling with in a post-pandemic world.[7]

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^{[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]}

See also

• Literature from North East India
• Indian English Literature

References

External links

• Profile, tribuneindia.com; accessed 6 April 2015.
• Jahnavi Barua at Penguin India

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