Library Love - 90 minute talk about Jane Borges's craft and the subjects of her work.

My workshop will be held at the end of April. It will be an hour and a half long and held over a weekend. The session is for people interested in using elements of oral history in their storytelling. 

About the Offerer:

Jane Borges is a senior journalist, author and oral historian. In 2022, she won the National RedInk Journalism Award. Her debut novel, Bombay Balchão (2019), was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puruskar and Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize. She has also co-authored the non-fiction Mafia Queens of Mumbai: Stories of Women from the Ganglands (2011) with S. Hussain Zaidi. A chapter from the book was adapted into the Bollywood film Gangubai (2022) by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. She is the co-founder of Soboicar, an oral history archive chronicling the lives of Catholics who migrated from the Konkan to South Mumbai. She is the recipient of the prestigious Charles Wallace Fellowship (2025), and as fellow, will be completing her new novel, Mog Asundi (Let there be Love), at the University of Stirling in Scotland during their spring semester this year.

She lives in Mumbai.

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