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Elizabeth Chakrabarty
Dr Elizabeth Chakrabarty is an interdisciplinary writer exploring the themes of racism and sexuality, and her debut literary crime novel Lessons in Love and Other Crimes, was published in 2021 by the Indigo Press, along with her essay, On Closure and Crime. Inspired by experience of race hate crime, her novel is also a queer love story. In USA, Lessons in Love and Other Crimes was selected as a Top-Shelf title for promotion in the Trafalgar Square/ IPG Fall 2021 campaign to retailers and libraries.
Her short story ‘That last Summer’ was published in The Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction 2022: Crime Stories Anthology (Comma Press, 2022), and another shortlisted story,‘Eurovision’ was published in the Asian Writer Short Story Prize anthology, Dividing Lines (Dahlia Press, 2017). Her shorter creative-critical work has been published in diverse publications, and most recently includes writing published by Gal-Dem and Wasafiri, and in the anthology Imagined Spaces (Saraband, 2020).
She received an Authors’ Foundation Grant from The Society of Authors (UK) in December 2018, to support the writing of Lessons in Love and Other Crimes, and she was chosen as one of the runners up for the inaugural CrimeFest bursary for crime fiction authors of colour in 2022.
Other Awards
Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2022, for Lessons in Love and Other Crimes.
Shortlisted for the Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction: Crime Stories 2022, for her story ‘That last Summer’.
Shortlisted for the Asian Writer Short Story Prize 2016, for her story ‘Eurovision’.
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