About Megha Majumdar
Born 1987. Megha Majumdar is an Indian writer.
Honors and awards A Burning was shortlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction, and won a Yuva Puraskar award from the Sahitya Akademi in 2021. In April 2022 Majumdar won a Whiting Award. A Burning was also longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction.
Majumdar won the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for her second novel, A Guardian and a Thief. The novel was shortlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2026 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.
She is a recipient of the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction.
She is the 2026-2027 Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
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Megha Majumdar was born in 1987 in Kolkata.
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