Dancing Gold Flecks

by Jayanthi Sankar

270 pages, Paperback

Published March 1, 2023

About the author

A lover of fiction, both in writing and reading, Jayanthi Sankar enjoys expanding the scope of her creative space. While living in her fictional world most of the time, she interacts with the characters as they form and shape. So, naturally, writing a novel is more of lively process she truly loves and she’s all into experimenting, especially in her storytelling.
Tabula Rasa her third book, and the second novel was a 2022 NYC Big Book Award ‘Distinguished Favourite’ in the category of Historical Fiction and an ‘honourable mention’ in San Francisco book fest award 2022. She has been in several international panels of literary festivals such as APWT 2018 at Gold coast, Singapore Writers Festival, Seemanchal International Literary festival, Asean- India Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Writers Festival. Misplaced Heads, was on the Eyelands Book Awards 2020 final list of historical fiction in Greece, making its mark as an outstanding postmodern historical fiction.
The winner in fiction: short story in 2020 International Book Award -American book fest ‘Dangling Gandhi’ also won the international The Literary Titan award apart from several shortlists and nominations. The title story Dangling Gandhi shortlisted in the 2nd Twist & Twain International Short Story Contest out of the 165 worldwide entries. A watercolour hobbyist, she has been a freelancer for more than two decades, with three years of experience in journalism. Born and brought up in India, she lives in Singapore since 1990.