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Sharmistha Mohanty

Sharmistha Mohanty is the author of two novels, Book One, and New Life. An extract from Book One is at New Writing 15.
A long excerpt from New Life can be found at Inertia Magazine.
Her translation of Rabindranath Tagore's fiction, Broken Nest and Other Stories, has recently been published.

Mohanty's work has appeared in journals and magazines in India, U.S.A., U.K., and France. She has held a fellowship at Germany's Akademie Schloss Solitude, as well as in France and the U.S.A., most recently at Yaddo. She is also a recipient of a Senior Fellowship in Literature from the Indian Ministry of Culture.
Mohanty attended the MFA programme in Fiction at the Iowa Writers Workshop.
She is currently at work on a new novel, Sub-continent, and a book of prose texts, one of which can be found on the website of George Szirtes.

More articles can be found at New Statesman and Open Space India.

Mohanty is the initiator and organiser of the Almost Island Dialogues, an international writers meet held in New Delhi every year. More information can be found at NEWS.

Mohanty's other serious interest is cinema. She has worked as a scriptwriter in the serious Indian cinema with Mani Kaul, Rajan Khosa, and Kabir Mohanty.
She lives in Bombay.