Jahnavi Barua

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]

Jahnavi Barua
Born	Assam
Occupation	Author

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]

Bibliography

• 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]

See also

• Literature from North East India
• Indian English Literature