Rochelle Potkar

Rochelle Potkar

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  • Name:
  • Rochelle Potkar
  • Born:
  • March 9, 1979

Rochelle Potkar Biography

Rochelle Potkar is a fiction writer based in Mumbai. She writes poetry, short stories etc. She has also done one Tamil film in the recent times, playing a supporting role. As a writer she is best known for her first short fiction book, Arithmetic of breasts and other stories. The book, an anthology of short stories was shortlisted at The Digital Book of the Year Award 2014. In 2016 she published her first poetry collection, Four Degrees of Separation. She has represented India at many writing programs and festivals in the recent past.

 

Rochelle Potkar was born on 9 March 1979 in Kalyan, Maharashtra. She belonged to a Goan family settled in Maharashtra. At the age of 19, she moved to Mumbai. Since then she is associated with this city. She graduated in commerce from the city and later completed MBA from La Trobe University, Australia. She later joined corporate sector. But at the age of 27, she gave up the job to become a full-fledged writer. She published her first short story collection, Arithmetic of breasts and other stories in 2014. After that she tried poetry and other genres of literature.

 

Some of her published books include - 40 Under 40: An Anthology of Post-Globalisation, The Best Asian Short Stories, Goa: A Garland of Poems, Iowa River: A Selection of Contemporary International Poetry, 100 Poems Are Not Enough, Four Degrees of Separation, Paper Asylum etc.  In 2017 she marked her acting debut playing a brief role in Tamil movie, Taramani. The movie opened to positive reviews and was a box office hit. She was a Charles Wallace Writer's fellow at the University of Stirling, Scotland, 2017.

Published: September 08, 2018

Updated: September 08, 2018

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