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Poet and fiction writer Kavita Jindal has won this year’s Haruki Murakami short story competition. Organised by Foyles, and judged by Haruki Murakami’s publisher, Liz Foley of Harvill Secker. Haruki picked a line from his latest work, 1Q84 and writers were invited to write a short story of no more than 1500 words with the opening line “Carrying a single bag, the young man is travelling alone at his whim with no particular destination in mind.”
Kavita Jindal’s entry was picked as the winner. You can read it here.
Amitav Ghosh’s Man Booker-nominated novel Sea of Poppies, partly researched at this museum, sets the tone for our closing day taking place on 25th February, 2012.
Set during the Opium Wars, it features a polyglot cast and crew: a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts – people only hinted at in official records. As they sail down the Hooghly River and into the sea, their old family ties are washed away and they forge new lives in remote lands. Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy attempts to fill in the blanks left by the …
I’m pleased to announce the winning entry for The Asian Writer New Writing Competition…
(drum roll)
Well done to GD Stickland (who you may remember also won the poetry category in our 2008 competition).
Roads, North and South
A pantoum
My friend, when you were only four
and dreaming of owning a bike,
and riding so fast on the shore
I smiled. For we were so alike.
From dreaming of owning a bike,
on the shore road now, you and I ride
and I smile for we are so alike
in jet black leather side by side.
When now, here along the shore; …
“a gripping, enlightening read”
Mohammed Hanif is just one of the novelists taking part in the festival
January 20-24, 2012 at Diggi Palace, Jaipur
The most fabulous literary love-fest on the planet the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival, is all set to enthrall literary enthusiasts again from January 20-24, 2012. The annual festival will be held at the heritage property Diggi Palace in Jaipur and promises to live up to its claim of being a celebration of National and International writing ,and encompassing a wide range of activities including debates, discussions, readings, music and workshops.
The festival will …
