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A Letter from Luxembourg
The French translation of All the Lives We Never Lived had a bumpy start. Its release in March 2020 crashed full tilt into worldwide lockdowns. Bookshops were shut, literary festivals cancelled,...
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All the Lives We Never Lived shortlisted for the International Dublin...
All the Lives We Never Lived has been shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. The shortlist is drawn from a longlist of 156 novels submitted by library systems in 119 cities in 40...
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All the Lives We Never Lived in Chinese
Rights to the Chinese translation of All the Lives We Never Lived have been acquired by Horizon, one of the most prestigious literary publishers in China. They publish an exceptional list of authors,...
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What We Need: Animals and Touch in Lockdown
"The longer we are denied what we took for granted, the more intensely we yearn for it."(Published in Lit Hub and Indian Quarterly) At the hour when, in pandemic times, sleep tends to thin or spin...
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THE VIRUS IN THE VILLAGE
(Public art at the entrance to Ranikhet; photo by Anuradha Roy)This article was first published in Scroll, 20 May 2021; translated into Spanish by Daniel Gascón for Letras Libres) Sound carries long...
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Singing in the Rain
The postman brought bound proofs of THE EARTHSPINNER today despite the pouring rain. From images and ideas - to notes in a notebook - to drafts on a laptop - to a thing you can hold and turn the pages...
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OUT SOON!
The Earthspinner will be published in India on 3 September and in the UK on 9 September.
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MEET THE WRITERS: CHRISTOPHER MACLEHOSE AND ANURADHA ROY WITH GEORGINA GODWIN
Christopher Maclehose and I talked together to Georgina Godwin about the brand new Mountain Leopard Press and the Earthspinner, his brilliant career spanning Murakami, Umberto and Steig Larsson, how...
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A POTTER'S TALE, by RAMU VELAR
Can books have something telepathic between them? It certainly felt that way to hold Ramu Velar's book in my hands and to read it in one greedy sitting last night. How miraculous it should be published...
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In Conversation with Ameena Hussein at the Jaipur Literature Festival, March...
I have the huge privilege of being in conversation about the Earthspinner with the brilliant Sri Lankan writer and publisher Ameena Hussein at the Jaipur Literature Festival. The session is on 8th...
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Daughter of India
Thanks to my wonderful publishers in Romanian, Humanitas, most of my books are read there in translation. Recently, Romanian philosopher Mihaela Gligor, who is the director of the Cluj Centre for...
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Inhabiting the world: Ranikhet, Abu Dhabi and London/ Paris Book Fair, 22...
It feels like emerging from a hibernation. An actual book event after three years! I will be signing books that evening from 6 to 7 at the Actes Sud stall and am so looking forward to seeing old...
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AN ANAGRAM OF GOD
I wrote a book review after ages, but then this was a special kind of book. The review is just out in Biblio, and will be up soon at www.biblio-india.org. THE BOOK OF DOG is edited by Hemali Sodhi is a...
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Escaping the Solitude of the Writing Life Through Letters
In April this year, I turned the key in the door of an apartment on the tenth floor of a grey building and walked into an ocean of light and sky. A bare, enormous room with white floors and walls, a...
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Mountains Hidden by Clouds
The following article is a conversation with the writer Pankaj Mishra. The interview can be read in full in Paris Review, where it was published in August 2022.I met the novelist Anuradha Roy in Delhi...
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The Goa Heritage Festival
It must have been my lucky week. Laila Tyabji, who is somehow puckish, formidable, and beautiful all at the same time, was my housemate at the Goa Heritage Festival.I went to the festival with my...
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Language, Lost and Found
In France for a long spell earlier this year, everyone around me speaking in a language I didn’t speak or read, I began to think about the many streams of language I've swum in. My mother tongue,...
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All the Lives We Never Lived wins the Sahitya Akademi Award 2022
Anuradha Roy bags coveted Sahitya Akademi Award, 22 others feted Anuradha Roy bagged the coveted Sahitya Akademi Award on Thursday. The author of 'All The Lives We Never Lived ' was felicitated along...
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The Earthspinner is travelling
There is exciting news to share. The Earthspinner is now out in two more languages, finding new readers in countries where English is not the first language. Translations make me very grateful -- such...
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Begum Anees Khan
Once a week around midday, Maulvi Sah’b would come in through the gates of our school in Hyderabad and class would divide briskly into two and troop off to different parts of the building. Those who...
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