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Meghna Pant is a multiple award-winning and bestselling author, screenwriter, journalist and speaker. Recognised as one of India’s best writers by multiple publications, Pant has been felicitated with various national and international honours for distinguished contribution to literature, gender issues and journalism, including the Frank O’Connor International Award, Bharat Nirman Award, Laadli Media Award, FICCI ‘Young Achiever’s Award’, TLJ ‘Women Achiever’s Award’, FON South Asia Short Story Award, Muse India Young Writer Award, Rangoli Award, Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, Society Achievers Award and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Pant has published nine books, including her recent bestsellers BOYS DON’T CRY (Penguin Random House, 2022) and THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, VERY BAD GOOD NEWS (Penguin Random House, 2021) that have been picked up for movie adaptations. Her other books are ONE & A HALF WIFE (Westland, 2012) – her bestselling debut novel – which won the national MUSE INDIA YOUNG WRITER AWARD (2014) and was shortlisted for several other awards, including the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Pant’s debut collection of short stories HAPPY BIRTHDAY (Random House, 2013) was long-listed for the prestigious Frank O’Connor International Award (2014), the world’s biggest short story prize, and independently selected among the ’World’s Top 10 Most Memorable Short Story Collections’ by Wikipedia. Her third book THE TROUBLE WITH WOMEN (Juggernaut, 2016) is considered a landmark in feminist writing and was described as ‘the best book from Juggernaut’ by The Hindu Business Line. Pant’s two non-fiction books FEMINIST RANI (Penguin Random House, 2018) and HOW TO GET PUBLISHED IN INDIA (Bloomsbury, 2019) were published to critical and commercial acclaim. Her latest novel THE MAN WHO LOST INDIA (Simon & Schuster, 2024) is the first dystopic war novel written by a woman in India. Her short stories have been published in over a dozen prestigious international and national literary magazines like Guernica, Wasafari, Avatar Review, Eclectica, EGO, QLRS, Every Day Fiction, Six Sentences, Muse India, The Bombay Review and The Indian Quarterly, as well as in several anthologies including THE HIMALAYAN ARC. Pant has been invited as a speaker for many of the nation’s biggest literary festivals and conferences, including TEDx, the Jaipur Literature Festival, Times Lit Fest, Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Pune Literary Festival, Lucknow Literature Carnival, Chandigarh Literati, Odisha Literary Festival, Hyderabad Literary Festival, Kumaon Lit Fest, Dehradun Literature Festival and Mood Indigo. She has spoken at various corporate events like MasterCard, Future Group, Welspun, Young Makers Conclave, #RiseWithTwitter, Rotary Club, Safecity Seminar, The Feminist Conference (UN Women), PEN India and She Leads India. She has spoken at India’s most premium institutes like IIM-Udaipur, IIM-K, IIT-Bombay, IIT (BHU)-Varanasi, XLRI, BITS Pilani, Jadavpur University, St. Xavier’s College, Shri Ram College of Commerce, NMIMS, Manipal University, AURO University, among several others. Her columns are regularly published in the Times of India, Hindustan Times, DNA, MidDay, Outlook, The Asian Age, Mumbai Mirror, Tehelka, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Verve, Cosmopolitan, Scroll, Firstpost, among others. She is a regular panellist at prime time news channels like Times Now, NDTV, CNN-IBN, Mirror Now and India Today TV, and international channels like DW News (Germany) and CGTN (China). Pant previously worked as a business news anchor for Times Now, NDTV and Bloomberg-UTV in New York and Mumbai. She holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and Statistics (St. Xavier College, Mumbai), an MBA in Finance (Nanyang Business School, Singapore), and a Masters in International Management (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland).
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