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Avni Doshi

(b.1982)

Avni Doshi is an American novelist currently based in Dubai. She was born in New Jersey to immigrants from India. She received a BA in Art History from Barnard College in New York, and a master's degree in History of Art from University College London.

Novels

Burnt Sugar (2019)
aka Girl in White Cotton

Award nominations

	2022 PEN/Hemingway Award (nominee) : Burnt Sugar
	2020 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Burnt Sugar

Avni Doshi recommends

Bad Habit (2024)
Alana S Portero
"Bad Habit is an engulfing novel. Portero had me captivated with her visceral prose."

Chrysalis (2023)
Anna Metcalfe
"WOW. I just devoured this. What a wonderful, painful, funny novel... It's so beautiful and cruel, and summed up just perfectly by the ending - a flawless final sentence, one of the best I've ever read, it absolutely gave me chills."

Small Deaths (2022)
Rijula Das
"Addictive and hilarious. Rijula Das is a writer to watch."