Anjum Hasan is the author of the novelsĀ The Cosmopolitans, Neti, NetiĀ andĀ Lunatic in my Head, andĀ the short story collectionsĀ A Day in the Life and Difficult Pleasures.Ā She has also published a book of poems calledĀ Street on the Hill.
Her books have been nominated for various awards including the Man Asian Literary Prize, the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, the Hindu Best Fiction Award and the Crossword Fiction Award. She was the Charles Wallace Writer-in-Residence at the University of Canterbury.
Her short stories, essays and poems are widely published including inĀ Granta, Baffler, Five Dials, Wasafiri, Drawbridge, Los Angeles Review of Books, Asia Literary Review, CaravanĀ and anthologies such asĀ A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces: Extraordinary Short Stories from the 19th Century to the PresentĀ andĀ The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets.Ā
Anjum is books editor atĀ The Caravan.Ā She lives in Bangalore.
