Nishant Batsha

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Nishant Batsha
Occupationnovelist
LanguageEnglish
Alma mater Columbia University, University of Oxford
Genre history, fiction
Notable worksMother Ocean Father Nation
Children2
Website
www.nishantbatsha.com

Nishant Batsha is an Indian-American writer of fiction and history, best known for his Lambda Literary Award-nominated novel Mother Ocean Father Nation. [1]

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Early life and education

Batsha is a child of Indian immigrants. [2]

He attended Columbia University as an undergraduate and studied history and South Asian Studies. He as a master's degree from Oxford University in Global and Imperial history. There, he discovered his interest in writing after he submitted an essay to The Awl when he was in his early twenties. Batsha originally set out to complete at PhD in History, which he returned to Columbia for. He studied Indian indentured servitude in Fiji and Trinidad for his PHd program and says he'd have never written the novels he did without that experience. [3]

Personal life

He has worked at Words Without Borders in the past. [3]

Batsha lives in Buffalo, NY, with his wife and two children. [2]

Selected works

Mother Ocean Father Nation is set on a South Pacific Island nation in 1985 that is experiencing a military coup. [3] LitHub named it one of the best covers of June 2022. [4] It was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction. [5]

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References

  1. "Women Novelists and Their Publishers", Living by the Pen, Routledge, pp. 93–111, 2002-09-11, doi:10.4324/9780203160145-10 (inactive 1 November 2024), ISBN   978-0-203-16014-5 , retrieved 2023-12-07{{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
  2. 1 2 "Meet the Fellows | Nishant Batsha". www.pdsoros.org. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
  3. 1 2 3 Magazine, Contingent (2022-09-03). "How Nishant Batsha Does History". CONTINGENT. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
  4. "The 10 Best Book Covers of June". Literary Hub. 2022-06-30. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
  5. Lopez, Rich (2023-03-21). "Read all about it: Lambda Literary's 35th annual LAMMY Award finalists". Dallas Voice. Retrieved 2023-12-07.