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Amitav Ghosh
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Kiran Desai
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Kritika Pandey
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Jhumpa Lahiri
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Detailed explanation-1: -Kritika Pandey, winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story prize, on her winning entry the Great Indian Tee And Snakes.
Detailed explanation-2: -Kritika Pandey was announced as the overall winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story ‘The Great Indian Tee and Snakes’.
Detailed explanation-3: -Eswatini writer Ntsika Kota has been named the overall winner of the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his story ‘and the earth drank deep’. Kota’s story centres on a group of villagers in a hunter-gatherer society in the distant past of our species.
Detailed explanation-4: -It is a story of forbidden, ill-fated love set in small-town India. It is also a bildungsroman of sorts; a young girl’s sudden moral awakening, when confronted with the reality of her country’s politics. In either case, the story will take you through a roller-coaster of emotions.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2, 000–5, 000 words). Regional winners each receive £2, 500 and the overall winner receives £5, 000.