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Sayani De

WRITER

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Sayani is a writer of fiction and creative nonfiction whose life and work traverse geographies, languages, and layered human experiences. An engineer with an MBA, she spent years in the tech industry, living and working across countries—experiences that deepened her reflections on gender, class, and inequality. Writing became her way of making sense of it all.

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Raised in a home where books were as cherished as festive sweets, Sayani’s love for language took root early. Storytelling, for her, is both refuge and resistance—a space where memory meets imagination.

Her work has appeared in The Bangalore Review, Indian Literature, The Selkie, Tamarind Literary Magazine, Muse India, and more. She was longlisted for the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and shortlisted for the Rama Mehta Writing Grant.

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Based in Kolkata, she is currently working on her debut novel. A passionate traveler, she has explored 17 countries and often returns to the Himalayas, drawn by their stillness and stories.

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