Siddhartha Gigoo

Siddhartha Gigoo won the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for “The Umbrella Man.” His publications include A Fistful of Earth and Other Stories (2015); two co-edited anthologies, A Long Dream of Home: The Persecution, Exodus and Exile of Kashmiri Pandits (2015), Once We Had Everything: Literature in Exile (2019); two poetry books, Fall and Other Poems (1994), Reflections (1995); four novels, The Garden of Solitude (2011), Mehr: A Love Story (2018), The Lion of Kashmir (2020), Love in the Time of Quarantine (2020); and a memoir, A Long Season of Ashes (2024). His short films, The Last Day (2013) and Goodbye, Mayfly (2015), have won several awards.