Bhavika Govil was born in New Delhi and dreams of the sea. Her debut novel, The Book of Ma, is forthcoming with HarperCollins India in 2025. A portion of the manuscript won 2021 Pontas & JJ Bola Emerging Writers Prize and was a finalist for the DHA New Writers’ Open Week.
Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, won the 2019 Bound Short Story Prize, and been longlisted for the TFA Awards for Creative Writing 2021-23. She has performed her work at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Push the Boat Out Festival and Paisley Book Festival.
A Case of Indian Marvels is the first major anthology of short stories by India’s most exciting new writers. The book pulls together the very best work of authors belonging to the millennial generation and Generation Z.
What Are You In The Mood To Read?
FICTION
Short stories about people, love & disappearing cats
NON-FICTION
Pieces on food, travel, culture from her day job
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