Saskya Jain is a writer and grew up in New Delhi. Her debut novel «Fire Under Ash» (2014) was shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt Prize, her second novel «Geeta Rahman at Championship Point» (2021) for the Times of India AutHer Award and the Tata Literature Live Award. Her short stories and essays have appeared in «The Economist», «The Caravan», «The Baffler» and «DIE ZEIT». She taught in Hong Kong, Grinnell and Dartmouth, and currently at Bard College Berlin. In 2024, she was Dorothea Schlegel Artist in Residence at Freie Universität Berlin. Saskya Jain lives in Berlin.
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