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Indian writer (born )

Tishani DoshiFRSL (born 9 December ) is an Indian poet, journalist and dancer based in Chennai.^[1] In she won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection due to Countries of the Body. Her poetry book A God at the Door was later shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection.^[2] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in ^[3]

Early life and education

Doshi was born in Madras,Tamil Nadu, India, to a Welsh mother and Gujarati father.

She completed a bachelor's degree in the United States, at Queens University of Charlotte. She graduated with a master's degree in creative writing from the Johns Hopkins University.^[4]

Career

Doshi works as a freelance writer and journalist. She has worked with choreographer Chandralekha.^[5] Her short story "Lady Cassandra, Spartacus and the Dancing man" was published in its entirety in the journal The Drawbridge in ^[6] Her poetry collection, Everything Begins Elsewhere,^[7] was published by Bloodaxe Books in the UK in and by Copper Canyon Press in the US in

Award winning works

In , Doshi won the Eric Gregory Award for young poets under 30 years.

Doshi's first poetry collection, Countries of the Body, was launched in at the Hay Festival on a platform with Seamus Heaney, Margaret Atwood, and others. The opening poem, "The Day We Went to the Sea", won the British Council-supported All India Poetry Prize. The book won the Forward Prize for best first collection.^[8] Her first novel, The Pleasure Seekers, was published by Bloomsbury in It was long-listed for the Orange Prize in ,^[9] and also shortlisted for The Hindu Literary Prize in ^{[citation needed]}

Her poetry book Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods^[10] was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award in Her book, Small Days and Nights, was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize.^[11] Doshi has been a finalist at Outlook-Picador Non-Fiction Competition.

She also received honorary invitation to the poetry galas of Hay Festival of and Cartagena Hay Festival of ^{[citation needed]}

Other activities

Doshi delivered the keynote address at the 13th annual St. Martin Book Fair^[12] on the Caribbean island country of Sint Maarten (Saint Martin) in Her book The Adulterous Citizen: Poems, Stories, Essays () was launched at the festival by House of Nehesi Publishers.^[13]

She writes a blog titled "Hit or Miss" on ESPNcricinfo,^[14] a cricket-related website.

In the blog, which she started writing in April , Doshi makes observations and commentaries as a television viewer of the second season of the Indian Premier League. She is also collaborating with cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan on his biography, to be published when he retires.^[15]

Books

• Countries of the Body (poetry) ISBN&#;
• Conflict and Instability (with [Tobias Hill] and Aoife Mannix) ISBN&#;
• The Pleasure Seekers (fiction) ISBN&#;
• Everything Begins Elsewhere (poetry), Bloodaxe Books, UK, ; Copper Canyon Press, United States, ISBN&#;
• Fountainville (fiction), Seren BooksISBN&#;
• Madras Then, Chennai Now (with Nanditha Krishna)^[16]ISBN&#;
• The Adulterous Citizen: Poems, Stories, Essays (House of Nehesi Publishers)^[17]ISBN&#;
• Girls Are Coming out of the Woods (poetry), HarperCollins, India;^[18]Bloodaxe Books, UK, ; Copper Canyon Press, United States, ISBN&#;
• Small Days and Nights (Bloomsbury) ISBN&#;
• A god at the door ISBN&#;

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