Swati Sengupta
Swati Sengupta studied English at Jadavpur University and then worked as a journalist for various newspapers in Kolkata. She quit her full-time job in September 2012 and currently freelances for newspapers along with her writing.
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John Green's first novel, Looking for Alaska, won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His next novel, Paper Towns, is a New York Times bestseller and won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best YA Mystery. In January 2012, his most recent novel, The Fault in Our Stars, was met with wide critical acclaim, unprecedented in Green's career. The praise included rave reviews in Time Magazine and The New York Times, on NPR, and from award-winning author Markus Zusak. The book also -
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Awards and Shortlists
- Highlights Foundation Full Scholarship Awardee 2024
- Shortlisted for the AG-BLF Book Prize for Children's Fiction 2023
- Author of a Parag Honour Book 2022
- Shortlisted for the Neev Book Award 2021
- Finalist for the Singapore Book Award 2019
- First runner-up for the Scholastic Asian Book Award 2018
- Winner of the Juggernaut Travel Writing Contest 2018
- Winner of the Chanakya Award for Communicator of the Year (Literature) 2018
- Shortlisted for the Scholastic Asian Book Award 2016
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These include:
`The Six Spellmakers of Dorabji Street'
`The Strange Haunting of Model High School'
`The Shy Supergirl'
`Lucky Girl'
`What Maya Saw'
`Nimmi's Spectabulous Schooldays'
and
`When Jiya Met Urmila'
Her short stories are included in numerous anthologies. She is also a journalist and columnist with a number of Indian newspapers and magazines. She is a former Senior Assistant Editor with the Times of India in Mumbai.
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His work from the last two decades has been about conceiving and contributing to diverse assignments as an Ideator, Photographer, Artist / Camera Yoga, Writer, Podcaster & Filmmaker.
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