Tejaswini Apte-Rahm

Tejaswini Apte-Rahm is an award-winning writer from Mumbai, India. Her novel of historical fiction, The Secret of More, is the winner of the Tata Literature Live! - Book of the Year Award (Fiction) 2023. It is also shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2023 and the Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival Prize 2023.

Her short story collection, These Circuses That Sweep Through the Landscape (Aleph Book Company) was shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2017, and the Tata-Nexon Literature Live! First Book Award 2017.

She has co-authored an environmental book for children, The Poop Book! (Kalpavriksh Environmental Action Group) which was a Parag Honour Book 2020 and nominated for the Jarul Book Award 2021-22. It was translated into Tibetan in 2022.

Tejaswini's fiction has appeared in Helter Skelter, Himal Southasian, BLink and Six Seasons Review.

She has lived in Serbia, Israel, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Fiji and Azerbaijan. She studied in Singapore and the UK. She worked as an environmental researcher and as a journalist and has written for Screen, Hindustan Times, the Times of India and Asian Age. She currently lives in Germany.