Hospital is a novel by Sanya Rushdi. Originally published in Bengali in 2019, it was translated into English by Arunava Sinha and published in Australia by Giramondo Publishing in 2023. The book is a work of autofiction that describes Rushdi's experiences of schizophrenia. It was shortlisted for the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the 2024 Stella Prize.
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About the author
The Bangladeshi author, Sanya Rushdi, was born in 1977. She was the second born of three children. She completed part of her primary school years in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which was interrupted by her family's move to Australia. This is where she finished the rest of her primary school education along with her secondary and tertiary education. She also went to college in Australia where she studied psychology. However, soon after settling into her PhD program at Deakin University she fell into her first episode of psychosis. After her first episode, she developed post-psychotic depression which she claims was more debilitating than the psychosis. Some time during her deep depression, she fell into her second episode of psychosis, then eventually her third where she was then diagnosed with schizophrenia. After her third episode, as she was recovering from her depression and learning how to cope with the symptoms of her schizophrenia, she started writing her novel Hospital.
