Gangamma’s Gharial (Puffin 2016), novel by Shalini Srinivasan, Research Scholar in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad has been shortlisted for The Hindu Young World – Goodbooks Best Author Award 2017.

Please see this link www.thehindu.com/…/the-hindu-young-world…/article9241090.ece

Shalini Srinivasan’s earlier work of fiction is Vanamala and the Cephalopod (Duckbill 2014). She is currently working at a doctoral dissertation on the graphics/comics journalism of Joe Sacco.

The winners will be announced at The Hindu Lit for Life Festival at Chennai in January 2017.

UoH Herald wishes Shalini best of luck.