Kritika Pandey

Kritika Pandey is a Pushcart-nominated writer from Jharkhand, India, and a graduate of the MFA for Poets and Writers, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the recipient of a 2021 residency grant at The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico and a 2020 grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. She is the overall winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, having been shortlisted for the prize in 2018 as well as 2016. Her works have appeared in Granta, Kenyon Review, BBC Radio 4, The Common, The Bombay Literary Magazine, Raleigh Review, and UCity Review, among others, and have been translated into Malayalam, Italian, Bengali, Marathi, and Pashto. She is the winner of the 2020 James W. Foley Memorial Award, the 2018 Harvey Swados Fiction Prize, the 2018 Cara Parravani Memorial Award in Fiction, and a 2014 Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. She is a 2014 Young India Fellow and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from BIT, Mesra.

Represented by: David Godwin

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PRESS

• PEN Transmissions: The Global Desi Story – A Conversation with Kritika Pandey

• The Wire: Kritika Pandey Wins 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for India

• 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Overall Winner

• 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Regional Winners

• Scroll.in: I even dream in Hinglish’: Meet the Asia winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

• The Hindu: Kritika Pandey, winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize Asia, talks about her work

• The Indian Express: Indian writer wins regional award for Asia in Commonwealth Short Story Prize

• 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Shortlist

• Scroll.in : Two stories from India are on this year’s shortlist for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize

• 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Shortlist

• Scroll.in: Meet the four Indian writers in the running for 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

• The New Indian Express: 5 Indians Shortlisted for Commonwealth 2016 Short Story Prize

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