Ashani Lewis

Ashani Lewis is an English writer of Welsh and Sri Lankan Tamil heritage and the older sister of the actor Indy Lewis. She attended Tiffin Girls’ School in Kingston upon Thames and graduated in English from Robinson College, Cambridge, in 2019. She began with poetry and short stories, winning the Tower Poetry Prize in 2016. Her first novel, Winter Animals (2024), won the Betty Trask Prize in 2025 as well as a Somerset Maugham Award, and her story collection Everest, also from 2024, was shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize. Her second novel, Suckerfish, appeared in 2026.

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