Tejaswini Apte-Rahm
Tejaswini Apte-Rahm is an award-winning writer from Mumbai, India. Her novel of historical fiction, The Secret of More, won the Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Fiction Award 2023. It was also shortlisted in 2023 for the JCB Prize for Literature, Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival Award and Tagore Literary Prize, and longlisted for the Kalinga Literature Festival Award.
Her short story collection, These Circuses That Sweep Through the Landscape, was shortlisted in 2017 for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and the Tata-Nexon Literature Live! First Book Award.
She has co-authored an environmental education book for children, The Poop Book! , which was a Parag Honour Book 2020 and nominated for the Jarul Book Award 2021-22. It was translated into Tibetan in 2022.
Tejaswini's fiction has appeared in various publications including Helter Skelter, Himal Southasian, Mint Lounge, BLink and Six Seasons Review.
She has worked as a journalist and environmental researcher, and has written for Screen, Hindustan Times, Times of India and Asian Age.
She studied in Singapore and the UK, and has lived in Serbia, Israel, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Fiji and Azerbaijan. She currently lives in Germany.
Her short story collection, These Circuses That Sweep Through the Landscape, was shortlisted in 2017 for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and the Tata-Nexon Literature Live! First Book Award.
She has co-authored an environmental education book for children, The Poop Book! , which was a Parag Honour Book 2020 and nominated for the Jarul Book Award 2021-22. It was translated into Tibetan in 2022.
Tejaswini's fiction has appeared in various publications including Helter Skelter, Himal Southasian, Mint Lounge, BLink and Six Seasons Review.
She has worked as a journalist and environmental researcher, and has written for Screen, Hindustan Times, Times of India and Asian Age.
She studied in Singapore and the UK, and has lived in Serbia, Israel, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Fiji and Azerbaijan. She currently lives in Germany.
