Tishani Doshi: Selected Poems

Award winning works

In 2001, Doshi won the Eric Gregory Award for young poets under 30 years. Doshi's first poetry collection, Countries of the Body, was launched in 2006 at the Hay Festival on a platform with Seamus Heaney, Margaret Atwood, and others. The opening poem, "The Day We Went to the Sea", won the 2005 British Council-supported All India Poetry Prize. The book won the 2006 Forward Prize for best first collection.[8] Her first novel, The Pleasure Seekers, was published by Bloomsbury in 2010. It was long-listed for the Orange Prize in 2011,[9] and also shortlisted for The Hindu Literary Prize in 2010.

Her poetry book Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods[10] was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award in 2018. Her 2019 book, Small Days and Nights, was shortlisted for the 2020 Ondaatje Prize.[11] Doshi has been a finalist at Outlook-Picador Non-Fiction Competition. She also received honorary invitation to the poetry galas of Hay Festival of 2006 and Cartagena Hay Festival of 2007.


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