Ankush Saikia

Ankush Saikia (born in 1975 in Tezpur, Assam^[1]) is an Indian author.^[2] He grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, Tezpur Assam, and Shillong, Meghalaya.^[3] Saikia has previously worked as a journalist at India Today, indiaabroad.com, and Express India, and as a senior editor in the publishing firm Dorling Kindersley (India).^[4][5] He is currently self-employed.

He was shortlisted for the Outlook–Picador India non-fiction writing award (2005).^[6] He has also written articles (mostly on North East India) for Tehelka, Outlook India, Scroll.in, Hindustan Times, fountainink.in etc. ^[7]

Bibliography

• Jet City Woman (2007)^[8][9]
• Spotting Veron and other Stories (2011)^[10]
• The Girl from Nongrim Hills (2013) ^[11]
• Dead Meat (2015) ^{[12][13] [14]}
• Red River, Blue Hills (2015) ^[15][16]

References

1. Saikia, Ankush. "Biography". Ankush Saikia. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
2. "The young brigade". The Hindu. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
3. Boange, Dilshan. "Exploring voices for Indian thriller fiction". Sunday Observer. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
4. "City Blues". Express India. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
5. "Interview: Ankush Saikia". Time Out Bengaluru. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
6. http://ankushsaikia.com/biography/
7. http://ankushsaikia.com/articles/
8. BAGCHI, AMITABHA. "When The Centre And The Periphery Meet". Tehelka. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
9. Choudhury, Sonya Dutta. "Stale News". India Today. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
10. Garg, Aditi. "Glimpses of life". Tribune India. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
11. http://thebchmag.com/interview-with-ankush-saikia/
12. http://www.amazon.in/Dead-Meat-Ankush-Saikia/dp/0143421204
13. http://www.tehelka.com/palatable-pulp/?singlepage=1
14. http://www.ibnlive.com/news/books/book-review-ankush-saikias-dead-meat-is-gory-but-gripping-1063197.html
15. http://www.amazon.in/River-Blue-Hills-Ankush-Saikia/dp/9385152947/
16. http://thebchmag.com/extract-from-red-river-blue-hills/

External links

• Official website
• Red River Blue Hills - Book Review