Tushar Jain is an Indian poet, playwright, writer and translator. He was the winner of the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize, 2012 [1] and won second place in the Poetry with Prakriti Prize, 2013.[2] Subsequently, he won the RL Poetry Award, 2014.[3] He was a winner of the DWL Short Story Contest 2014 for his short story "A humiliating day for [Dr.] Balachander" and was nominated further for the Dastaan Award, 2014.[4] He won the Toto Funds the Arts Award for Creative Writing, 2016.[5] His first play "Reading Kafka in Verona" was long-listed for the Hindu Metroplus Playwright Award, 2013.[6]
His work has been published in various international journals and other forums such as Antiserious, thenervousbreakdown, rlpoetry.org, and papercuts.[7][8][9]
He is currently working on children's popular fiction.
References
edit- ^ theHindu retrieved 4th Feb 2016
- ^ poetry withprakriti
- ^ rlpoetry.org
- ^ "Short Story Competition 2014". 28 September 2014.
- ^ desiwriterslounge
- ^ The Hindu
- ^ Antiserious
- ^ theNervousBreakdown
- ^ http://desiwriterslounge.net/articles/among-the-sows/desiwriterslounge [dead link]