Shahnaz Habib

Shahnaz
Habib

Shahnaz Habib is the author of the nonfiction book Airplane Mode (Catapault Books), and the translator of the novel Jasmine Days, for which she and the author Benyamin won the JCB Prize, India’s most valuable prize for literature. Her short stories and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker online, Creative NonfictionAgniBrevityThe Guardian, and Afar. She has been awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, and her work has been cited in the Best American Essays series. She holds a BA from Mahatma Gandhi University, an MA in English Literature from the University of Delhi, and an MA in Media Studies from the New School.

Shahnaz Habib is the author of the nonfiction book Airplane Mode (Catapault Books), and the translator of the novel Jasmine Days, for which she and the author Benyamin won the JCB Prize, India’s most valuable prize for literature. Her short stories and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker online, Creative NonfictionAgniBrevityThe Guardian, and Afar. She has been awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, and her work has been cited in the Best American Essays series. She holds a BA from Mahatma Gandhi University, an MA in English Literature from the University of Delhi, and an MA in Media Studies from the New School.

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