Anjum Hasan

Anjum Hasan’s latest book is Hometown: Shillong in the World (Bloomsbury, 2026). She is the author of the novels History’s Angel, The Cosmopolitans, Neti, Neti and Lunatic in my Head, and the short story collections Difficult Pleasures and A Day in the Life. She has also published a book of poems called Street on the Hill.

History’s Angel won the Godrej LitLive! Fiction Book of the Year and FICCI Fiction Book of the Year awards. A Day in the Life won the Valley of Words Fiction Award 2019. Her books have been shortlisted or longlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Hindu Literary Prize, the Crossword Fiction Award, the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, the Man Asian Literary Prize, the Auther Award, and the Atta Galatta Book Prize.