Bangalore’s Jahnavi Barua’s Novel “Rebirth” Nominated For 2012 Commonwealth Prize
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 27th, 2012Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bangalore, Books and Authors, People
Bangalore’s Jahnavi Barua’s novel “Rebirth” is nominated for the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize. This is Barua’s first novel. Other authors nominated for their first novel in the Commonwealth book prize category include Jamil Ahmad, Christopher Currie, and Rahul Bhattacharya. You can check the complete list here. The winner of the Commonwealth book prize will be announced in June at the annual literary The Hay Festival in Wales.
Barua joins the growing rank of physicians cum writers like Abraham Verghese and Sidhhartha Mukherjee. She has been writing since 2004. Her first book was “Next Door,” a collection of short stories. “Rebirth” (Penguin India) was previously shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize. Assam figures quite prominently in her writings, which is where she grew up. She now lives in Bangalore.
Here is an interesting interview with Jahnavi Barua.
Photo credit: Penguin India
I stumbled upon this nice little blog while searching for Jahnavi Barua. Just finished reading “Rebirth” and simply loved it. Will be rooting for her! Keep us posted on the results! Just discovered you have a podcast too…wonderful! You dont have a feature where one can follow your blog ? Anyway..will defnitely bokmark this one!
Thank you Divya for stopping by and reading the post on Jahanavi Barua. Look forward to having you visit the website more often.
Cheers!
kamla
Hi,
I didn’t understand the last part of it.. Does Kaberi stays with her husband or goes with Bidyut? Please I want to know about it..