Awards and recognitions Awards and recognitions
| Result | Awarder | Year
| | Best English Language Book | Awarded | Sahitya Sabha,
Indian Academy of Letters | 2018 | Tata Book of the Year Award for fiction
| Won | Tata Lit Live!, Mumbai, India
| 2017 | The Hindu Literature Prize 2015
| Won | The Hindu, Chennai, India
| 2016 | The Hindu Literature Prize 2013
| Nominated
| The Hindu, Chennai, India | 2014 | | The “Free Voice” award | Awarded | Catalan PEN, Barcelona, Spain
| 2013 | | Governor's award for excellence in Naga literature | Awarded | Nagaland, India
| 2010 | | Tata Memorial Award for academic research | Awarded | The Lady Tata Memorial Trust, India
| 1996 | | Best journalistic essay | Won | Nagaland Journalists Association, India
| 1987 | | Silver medal for Best creative writing | Silver | Bertrand Russell Study Forum, India | 1982 |
Work experience| Employer | From | To
| Work
| Tromsø Kommune
| 2010
| 2014
| Friby koordinator / ICORN coordinator
| Tromsø Kommune
| 2007 | 2009
| Stipend
| Tromsø Kommune
| 2005
| 2007
| Guest writer, ICORN program
| Nagaland University, Kohima, Nagaland, India
| 1988
| 2005
| Lecturer and Reader in English | | Kohima College, Kohima, Nagaland, India | 1985
| 1988
| Lecturer in English literature | | Government of Nagaland, Kohima, India | 1982
| 1985
| Editor, Department of Publicity |
Education| Degree | Where | Year
| Information
| | PhD | Poona University, Pune, India | 2002 | Thesis: "Translation as a Creative Art:
Nativisation of Language in the
Translation of Angami Folk Tales." | | Master's Degree | North Eastern Hill University | 1981 | I Division | | Post graduate Diploma in Journalism | Delhi University | 1979 | I Division |
Professional affiliations
| Organisation | Position | | Norwegian Writers forum | Member | | Norsk PEN | Member | | Austrian PEN | Honorary member | Ura Academy for Tenyidie Literature and Culture, Nagaland, India
| Member | | North East Writers' Forum, India | Member |
Selected publications
Publications are too many to list, only the most prominent publications
are listed. 27 original books published, including 5 children's books (not listed here).
In addition several second editions, and 7 translations. Find more books here. Year
| Book
| Published by
| | 2019 | A Respectable Woman | Zubaan, India
| | 2017 | Don’t Run My Love | Speaking Tiger, India | | 2016 | Son of the Thundercloud | Speaking Tiger, India
| 2014
| When the River Sleeps
| Zubaan Books, New Delhi, India | | 2011 | A Slice of Stavanger | Barkweaver, Norway | | 2011 | Life on Hold | Barkweaver, Norway | | 2011 | Bitter Wormwood | Zubaan Books, New Delhi, India | | 2010 | MARI | Harper Collins India | | 2009 | Naga Folktales Retold | Barkweaver, Norway
| | 2007 | A Terrible Matriarchy | Zubaan Books, New Delhi, India
| | 2003 | A Naga Village Remembered [a first novel] | Ura Academy, Nagaland, India
| | 2002 | The Windhover Collection [short stories and poems]
| Steven Herlekar, Poona, India
| | 1982 | Kelhoukevira [a first volume of poetry in English] | J.B Lama, Calcutta, India |
In 2013, her band JazzPoetry released a digital album that spent some time at the top of the Norwegian iTunes jazz charts. In addition more than 50 articles are written for newspapers, magazines and miscellaneous publications. She has written reference books for Social Sciences and edited several English subject textbooks for schools under the Nagaland Government. Many of her poems and short stories have been published in Asia and Europe. Performances
Since 2005, a huge number of live poetry readings and singing, with or without accompaniment, in Austria, Germany, India, Norway, Polen, Spain, Sweden and UK. Many of these performances was carried out with her band JazzPoetry.
Radio and TV work
Scripting, narrating, acting and producing documentaries and plays for radio and television in India.
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