Erika Banerji is a prize-winning short-story writer.

She was born in Assam, raised in New Delhi and now lives in London. Her short story ‘Christopher’ won the 2025 Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize. Her fiction has appeared in journals and anthologies and listed for prizes including The Bridport, Bristol, V.S Pritchett and Fish.

Erika is currently working on a short story collection, alongside a novel set in eighteenth-century Bengal and England.

Winner of the 2025 Harpers Bazaar Short Story Competition for ‘Christopher’

“A sensitive and wryly amusing tale about two childhood friends crossing paths after years living in different countries.”

— Ben Okri (Judge for the 2025 prize)

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‘Two Lads on a Delhi Street’ Shortlisted for the 2026 Bristol Short Story Prize

Long listed for the Bristol Short Story Prize 2025

Long listed for the HWA Dorothy Dunnet Short Story Prize 2024

‘The Hibiscus Thief’ is now published by Fairlight Books (14 March 2024)

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BOOK REVIEW: UNDER WATER By Tara Menon (Summit Books, 2026)

Tara Menon's debut novel, Under Water, is a haunting story of loss, the fragility of friendship, and the destructive relationship between humans and nature.

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BOOK REVIEW: THE CORRESPONDENT By Virginia Evans (Penguin, 2025)

BOOK REVIEW: THE CORRESPONDENT BY Virginia Evans (Penguin, 2025)

The winner of the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction is THE CORRESPONDENT by Virginia Evans. It's an epistolary novel, told in a series of letters, emails, and messages, narrated by Sybil Van Antwerp, a 73-year-old woman.

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BOOK REVIEW: LONDON FALLING By Patrick Radden Keefe (Picador 2026)

BOOK REVIEW: LONDON FALLING By Patrick Radden Keefe (Picador, 2025)

It's rare for me to pick up a book of non-fiction that has nothing to do with literature, past or present. But Patrick Radden Keefe's LONDON FALLING has been the book that everyone has been talking about in London these past few months.

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