“I look at my writing career as a long-distance marathon rather than a short-distance sprint.”- Smita Das Jain (Indian Author)
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Team Kitaab is in conversation with Indian author Smita Das Jain as a part of the South Asian Women Writers Feature.
For the whole of March, we will be featuring South Asian Women Writers on Kitaab for the whole of March. You can read the editor’s note to know more about this.
Today, we are featuring Indian author, Smita Das Jain. Smita is a writer by passion and writes every day. Samples of her writing are visible in her home office, her sunny terrace garden, her husband’s car, and the kitchen napkins. Her debut short story collection A Slice of Life was named among India’s top three fiction works by Writefluence, and her debut novel A Price to Love found a mention in the Top 50 books of 2022 by Delhi Wire. She is also the first-prize winner of the prestigious Bharat Award for Literature, 2023 for her short story ‘Purchased Love.’
