Ondaatje Prize awarded to Rahul Bhattacharya

Rahul Bhattacharya is named the £10,000 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize with his first novel The Sly Company of People Who Care. (May 29, 2012). Nick Laird, Michèle Roberts and Kamila Shamsie admired ‘Bhattacharya’s verve and  style as he brilliantly evokes the history and inhabitants and landscape ofGuyana’. Nick Laird said he had  ‘seldom …