Siddhartha Gigoo, is an Indian author and film-maker He studied English literature at
Jawaharlal Nehru University
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,
New Delhi
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,
India
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. He is the author of two books of fiction, '' The Garden of Solitude'' (2011), and ''A Fistful of Earth and Other Stories '' (2015), which was longlisted for the
Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
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2015. His short story "The Umbrella Man" won the
Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2015 for Asia. Two books of his poems, ''Fall and Other Poems'' and ''Reflections'' were published by Writer’s Workshop,
Kolkata
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. His writings have appeared in several literary magazines.
Gigoo has also written and directed two short films. "The Last Day", set against the backdrop of the exodus and exile of
Kashmiri Pandit
The Kashmiri Pandits (also known as Kashmiri Brahmins) are a group of Kashmiri Hindus and a part of the larger Saraswat Brahmin community of India. They belong to the Pancha Gauda Brahmin group from the Kashmir Valley, a mountainous region l ...
s from their homeland in 1990,
Kashmir, India, was selected for the 6th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, the 7th Annual
FilmAid Film Festival (
Kenya
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), the International Film Festival of Cinematic Arts–Short and Micro Cinema (
Los Angeles
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), the 11th
International Exile Film Festival (
Sweden), the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival (
Mumbai
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) and the
Lucerne International Film Festival (
Switzerland).
"Goodbye, Mayfly" was selected for the Competition section of the 8th International Documentary and Short film festival of Kerala (2015).
References
External links
website
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Screenwriters from Jammu and Kashmir
Novelists from Jammu and Kashmir
People from Srinagar
1974 births
Living people