Anukrti Upadhyay’s novel, Kintsugi, was published by the Fourth Estate imprint and won the Sushila Devi Award 2021 for Best Book of Fiction.
The Ratanlal Foundation and the Bhopal Literature and Art Festival’s organizing committee have announced the winner of this prestigious award for fiction written by a woman author and published in 2020. This prize has been instituted by the Shri Ratanlal Foundation.
About the Anukrti Upadhyay:
Anukrti Upadhyay has post-graduate degrees in Management and Literature, and a graduate degree in Law. She writes in both English and Hindi. In 2019, she wowed readers and critics alike with the twin novellas Daura and Bhaunri, as well as the short story collection Japani Sarai.
About the novel:
Kintsugi — named after the ancient Japanese art of mending broken objects with gold — is a novel about young women breaching boundaries, overcoming trauma, and challenging the social order. And about men surprised by women who are unconventional, unafraid and independent. It is the story of Meena, rebellious and unexamined, and Yuri, as complex as Meena is naive. Of Hajime, a cultural outsider, and Prakash, who is unable to see beyond his narrow horizons.
