Read Yellow Light by 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.
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. She is also a recipient of a Senior Fellowship in Literature from the Indian Ministry of Culture. Her translations of Tagore's fiction, Ruined Nest and Other Stories is due out soon.
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'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.