Tejaswini Apte-Rahm is an award-winning writer from Mumbai. The Secret of More, her first novel, won the Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year (Fiction) Award 2023. It also won a Book-to-Box-Office Award at the NFDC Film Bazaar 2023 (National Film Development Corporation). It was shortlisted in 2023 for the JCB Prize for Literature, the Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival Prize, and the Tagore Literary Prize, and longlisted for the Kalinga Literature Festival Award.
Her short story collection, These Circuses That Sweep Through the Landscape, was shortlisted in 2017 for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and the Tata-Nexon Literature Live! First Book Award. Her fiction has appeared in various publications including Helter Skelter, BLink, Mint Lounge, Indian Express and Himal Southasian.
She worked as a journalist and environmental researcher in India, and has written for Screen, Hindustan Times, the Times of India and the Asian Age. She has co-authored an environmental education book for children, The Poop Book!, nominated for the Jarul Book Award 2021-22, and translated into Tibetan. She studied in Singapore and the UK, and has lived in Serbia, Israel, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Fiji and Azerbaijan. She currently lives in Germany.
Her books:
The Secret of More
Tatyasaheb: The Story of a Bombay Entrepreneur