Siddhartha Gigoo

Siddhartha Gigoo, winner of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Asia) for his short story, ‘The Umbrella Man’, has published two books of poetry—Fall and Other Poems and Reflections, four novels—The Garden of Solitude, Mehr: A Love Story, The Lion of Kashmir, Love in the Time of Quarantine—and a book of short stories—A Fistful of Earth and Other Stories (long listed for the 2015 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award). He has co-edited two anthologies, A Long Dream of Home: The Persecution, Exodus and Exile of Kashmiri Pandits and Once We Had Everything: Literature in Exile. In 2021, Siddhartha won the New Asian Short Story Prize for his short story, ‘Elephant’s Tusk’. His short stories have been long-listed for the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Prize, the Royal Society of Literature’s V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize and the Seán O’Faoláin Short Story Prize. Siddhartha’s short films, The Last Day and Goodbye, Mayfly, have won several awards at international film festivals. His writings also appear in various literary journals.