Siddhartha Gigoo

Novelist, short story writer, anthologist, and filmmaker Siddhartha Gigoo also works in film. For his short tale The Umbrella Man, he received the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2015. His works have been placed on the longlist for the 2018 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Prize, the 2018 V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize from the Royal Society of Literature, and the 2018 Seán O'Faoláin Short Story Prize (2019). His short story Elephant's Tusk took home the prize for the New Asian Short Story Prize in 2021. Numerous magazines have published his writings. He has received numerous accolades for his short films at international film festivals. Siddhartha graduated from Jawaharlal Nehru University with a master's in English literature. He also plays the flute. A Hindi literary magazine called Daalaan was also co-founded by Siddhartha. The Garden of Solitude (2011) and A Fistful of Earth and Other Stories (2015), two of his fiction works, were both nominated for the 2015 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.

The Writer's Workshop in Kolkata released two collections of his poetry, Fall and Other Poems and Reflections. Additionally, Gigoo has written and directed two short movies. The documentary and short film "The Last Day," which is set against the backdrop of Kashmiri Pandits' exodus and exile from their homeland in 1990, Kashmir, India, was chosen for the International Film Festival of Cinematic Arts-Short and Micro Cinema, the 7th Annual FilmAid Film Festival, and the 6th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (Los Angeles), the 11th International Exile Film Festival (Sweden), and the Kala Ghoda Lucerne International Film Festival and the Mumbai Arts Festival (Switzerland). The competition portion of the 8th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala has chosen "Goodbye, Mayfly" as one of its featured films (2015).