Kritika Pandey is the global winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and was shortlisted in 2018 and 2016. A graduate of the MFA for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, she was a resident writer at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico in 2021. Her writing has been generously supported by a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She grew up in Jharkhand, India.
Her works have appeared in Granta, Kenyon Review, BBC Radio 4, The Common, The Bombay Literary Magazine, Raleigh Review, and UCity Review, among others, and have been translated into Malayalam, Italian, Bengali, Marathi, and Pashto. In 2014, she won a Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing at The University of Edinburgh’s Scottish Universities’ International Summer School, the same year she became a Young India Fellow. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from BIT, Mesra.
Represented by: David Godwin
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
The Great Indian Tee and Snakes | Short Story | Granta | June 2020
Thirty-One Things About the Lime of Control | Personal Essay | The Common | August 2019
PRESS
• PEN Transmissions: The Global Desi Story – A Conversation with Kritika Pandey
• The Wire: Kritika Pandey Wins 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for India
• 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Overall Winner
• 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Regional Winners
• The Hindu: Kritika Pandey, winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize Asia, talks about her work
• The Indian Express: Indian writer wins regional award for Asia in Commonwealth Short Story Prize
• 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Shortlist
• Scroll.in : Two stories from India are on this year’s shortlist for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize
• 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Shortlist
• Scroll.in: Meet the four Indian writers in the running for 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
• The New Indian Express: 5 Indians Shortlisted for Commonwealth 2016 Short Story Prize
