Tushar Jain

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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]

  1. ^ theHindu retrieved 4th Feb 2016
  2. ^ poetry withprakriti
  3. ^ rlpoetry.org
  4. ^ "Short Story Competition 2014". 28 September 2014.
  5. ^ desiwriterslounge
  6. ^ The Hindu
  7. ^ Antiserious
  8. ^ theNervousBreakdown
  9. ^ http://desiwriterslounge.net/articles/among-the-sows/desiwriterslounge [dead link]