Tejaswini Apte-Rahm

Tejaswini Apte-Rahm is an award-winning writer from Mumbai. Her latest book is a biography titled Tatyasaheb: The Story of a Bombay Entrepreneur (published by Westland in December 2025). The Secret of More, her first novel, won the Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year (Fiction) Award 2023. It also won a Book-to-Box-Office Award at the NFDC Film Bazaar 2023. It was shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature, the Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival Prize, and the Tagore Literary Prize. Her short story collection, These Circuses That Sweep Through the Landscape, was shortlisted in 2017 for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and the Tata-Nexon Literature Live! First Book Award. Her fiction has appeared in various publications including Helter Skelter, BLink, Mint Lounge and Himal Southasian.