TFA is pleased to announce the longlist for the nineteenth edition of the TOTO Awards for Creative Writing in English. From a total of 194 applications that we received, 26 young writers have been longlisted for the two awards. Their names, in no particular order, are:
Faiz Ahmad, Mumbai
Aditya Gautam, Bengaluru
Yamini Krishnan, New Delhi
Abhishek Basak, Delhi
Varsha Ananth Murthy, Bengaluru
Azhar Wani, Srinagar
Zainab Ummer Farook, Kozhikode
Tuhin Bhowal, Bengaluru
Sumedha Chakravarthy, New Delhi
Ajay Kumar, Hyderabad
Vismaya Vishwa, Bengaluru
Tanya Singh, Chandigarh
Shinjini Dey, Secunderabad
Michael Verghese, Bengaluru
Lonav Ojha, Tezpur
Rose Maria Alexis, Bengaluru
Tanvi Kulkarni, Pune
Kanika Ahuja, New Delhi
Kinshuk Gupta, Kaithal
Navya Sah, Bengaluru
Prerna Kalbag, Delhi
Afreen Khan, Delhi
Nupur Saraswat, Bengaluru
Subhrojyoti Mukherjee, Kolkata
Ishani Pant, Kolkata
Denzel Joyson AJ, Bengaluru
These awards are supported by Mani Rao Foundation and Naboneeta Majumdar.