Anushka Jasraj

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Anushka Jasraj
NationalityIndian
Alma materUniversity of Texas-Austin
GenreShort Story
Notable awardsCommonwealth Short Story Prize for Asia

Anushka Jasraj is a fiction writer from Mumbai, India. She has twice been selected as Asia Regional Winner for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2012 and 2017.[1]

Life

She holds a BFA in Film Production from New York University and a MFA in Creative Writing from the New Writers Project as well as a MA in Women's and Gender Studies from the University of Texas-Austin.[2] She was a 2015-16 fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and was awarded the 2017 Stars at Night emerging writer award by American Short Fiction.[3]

Her work has been published in Scroll.in,[4] Internazionale, Adda Stories,[5] and Granta.[6]

References

  1. ^ "The 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize | Commonwealth Writers". Commonwealth Writers. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Anushka Jasraj". Granta Magazine. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  3. ^ "Anushka Jasraj". American Short Fiction. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  4. ^ Jasraj, Anushka. "GV Desani's journal: The manuscript diaries of the first modern Indian writer in English". Scroll.in. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  5. ^ "Circus - adda". adda. 20 June 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  6. ^ "Anushka Jasraj". Granta Magazine. Retrieved 10 March 2018.

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