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Soon out in the US and Canada
A couple of months to go before its US release, All the Lives We Never Lived has a starred review in Publisher's Weekly. Describing it as a "lush and lyrical fusion of history and storytelling", the...
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This has been a dizzying couple of weeks. All the Lives we Never Lived was shortlisted, on 3rd October, for the JCB Literature Prize. And today it has been announced that it is part of the longlist for...
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UBUD WRITERS AND READERS 2018: A DIARY IN PICTURES
SESSION: FEAST AND FICTION, AT THE BRIDGES, BALIA PREVIOUS VISITOR TO WALTER SPIES' HOUSE IN ISEH: DAVID BOWIEAT VILLA ISEH, BALI, WALTER SPIES' OLD BAMBOO HUT IS NOW A BEAUTIFUL BOUTIQUE HOTELSESSION:...
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ALL THE LIVES WE NEVER LIVED WILL BEGIN ITS LIFE IN THE US THIS NOVEMBER
Published by ATRIA/ SIMON& SCHUSTERNovember, post Halloween and before Christmas, is when All the Lives We Never Lived gets into the bookstores in the US and Canada. The pre-publication reviews...
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Winner of the Tata Book of the Year: All the Lives We Never Lived
All the Lives We Never Lived won the Tata Book of the Year Award on the 18th of November in Bombay, India. Speaking of the book, the judges said that its prose was "glittering" and that the book "did...
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The Rosalind Wilson Memorial Book Discussion
The Rosalind Wilson Memorial Lecture has been a fixture on the Delhi school calendar for more than twenty years, and has featured writers such as Vikram Seth and William Dalrymple. This year, the book...
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VIVARIUM: May the new year bring happiness and harmony
At the year's end, some images.This enormous work, an embroidered watercolour, covered most of a wall in a long, calm, white room with windows opening onto green foliage. It was at one end of the Royal...
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AMERICAN HOT POT
By the Missisippi river in MinneapolisLoud-voiced Woman: "This is a purebred dog, Ah paid 2,500 dollars for that dog."Mumbling Man: "I'd -a given ya a baby. I'd-a given ya a baby."Loud-voiced Woman:...
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GUEST POST: THE MEANING OF CERTAIN TREES
This is a Guest Post by Madhumita Mazumdar, who discovered an intriguing story behind the flowers and foliage planned for the city she lives in, Gandhinagar, Gujarat.Photograph by Partha Chowdhury...
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THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION
Wonderful to know that All the Lives We Never Lived is in this amazing list of books nominated for the 2019 Walter Scott Prize.
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MUD
Out now in Indian QuarterlyRead the complete essay hereThe wind’s direction has been changing from south-west to north-north-east on my phone’s weather app as irregularly as a breeze throws around...
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A New Chapter at Lockbridge Pottery
I am going to miss the new show at Lockbridge Pottery on 23rd and 24th August, but cannot believe how lucky I am to be going there the week after because of a hugely generous invitation from potters...
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INDEPENDENT PEOPLE
Almost each time I am travelling to a country I've never been to, Christopher Maclehose, my publisher, sends me a book for the journey. On my first trip to Bali, he had sent Christina Jordis's Bali,...
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US PAPERBACK OUT NEXT WEEK
"Fans of Michael Ondaatje’s recent novel, “Warlight,” will appreciate Roy’s similarly sensitive exploration of a child’s mingled confusion, resentment and hope...Even more captivating than the...
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AN AWARD FOR CONTRIBUTION TO INDIAN LITERATURE
The Nilimarani Sahitya Samman 2020 for contribution to Indian Literature was instituted by the Odisha's prominent cultural magazine Kadambini. It was given last year to Odiya writer Manoj Das. To...
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ALMOST HEAVEN (WEST VIRGINIA)
Late in 2018, I had a message from a stranger in the United States. He was delighted, he said, to see Bernard Leach’s A Potter’s Book included in my list of six favourites in a magazine he had been...
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Tales of Two Planets
“ELEGIAC, ANGRY AND IRONIC … [A] CLARION GLOBAL CHORUS”In the past five years, John Freeman, previously editor of Granta, has launched a celebrated international literary magazine, Freeman’s, and...
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A NATION ON PAUSE: CORONAVIRUS IN INDIA
Mall Road, Ranikhet | Anuradha RoyIt is the middle of April and weeks into lockdown, limbo is a jittery place. In today’s newspaper, gunshots during a game of Ludo: “Jai accused Prashant of coughing...
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Carolyn Reidy 1949 -2020
At a time when the sky is darkening every day with bad news, it grew even darker today with the news of Carolyn Reidy's sudden death.She was publisher at Simon and Schuster, and its President. "She...
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