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 …
Man Asian Literary Prize Shortlist
A River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh is just one of the titles shortlisted An unprecedented seven novels have been shortlisted for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize, Chair Judge Razia Iqbal announced today. Speaking at a press conference at Man Group offices in London, Ms. Iqbal revealed that because of the strength of contemporary …
Rahul Bhattacharya
The Asian Writer talks to first time novelist Rahul Bhattacharya