Perumal Murugan, Kannan Sundaram, N. Kalyan Raman, Anita Nair | Jaipur Literature Festival

Описание: Poonachi: A Story of Our Times: Perumal Murugan, Kannan Sundaram, N. Kalyan Raman & Anita Nair

Perumal Murugan teaches Tamil Literature at a government arts college in Tamil Nadu. He is the author of ten novels, ten collections of short stories and poems and ten works of non-fiction. Several of his novels, stories and poems have been translated into English, including Seasons of the Palm, which was shortlisted for the Kiriyama Prize, Current Show, One Part Woman and Pyre. His best-known novel, One Part Woman, won the prestigious ILF Samanvay Bhasha Samman for writing in Indian languages. His recent novel, Poonachi, has been shortlisted for several awards.

Kannan Sundaram is the Managing Director of Kalachuvadu Publication. He is also the editor and publisher of Kalachuvadu, a monthly journal on culture and politics. He has been invited as part of international visitor programmes to the United States, Germany and Australia. He has published five books on Tamil media and politics. His sixth collection of essays will be published this year.

N. Kalyan Raman has translated and published 11 works of Tamil fiction by several important writers, including Ashokamitran and Perumal Murugan. His translations of contemporary Tamil poetry have been widely published in journals and anthologies. In 2017, he received the prestigious Pudumaipithan award for his contribution to Tamil literature through translations.

Anita Nair is the author of the novels The Better Man, Ladies Coupé, Mistress, Lessons in Forgetting, Idris: Keeper of the Light and Alphabet Soup for Lovers. Her books have been translated into over 30 languages. She has also written two plays and the screenplay for the film adaptation of her novel Lessons in Forgetting, which was part of the Indian Panorama at IFFI 2012 and won the National Film Award in 2013. Among other awards, she is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Crossword Prize. Her latest novel is Eating Wasps.

Poonachi: A Story of Our Times
Perumal Murugan’s body of work in Tamil includes ten novels and five collections each of poetry and short stories, as well as ten books of non-fiction. His latest novel, Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat, was shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature and is an animal allegory that carries deep resonances with our troubled times. Translated into English by N. Kalyan Raman, Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat is the story of a mountain goat, following her from forest to habitation, independence to motherhood, even as she carries the burden of being different and her fierce instinct for survival. Murugan’s masterly skills of narration and nuance have made him one of the most acclaimed of contemporary writers. The author and translator will be in conversation with publisher Kannan Sundaram and writer Anita Nair, speaking of the choices before us, as a society, as a nation and the increasing vulnerability of individuals, particularly writers and artists, who resist the hegemony of mass culture.
Presented by JCB Prize for Literature Series

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Links to the other session by Perumal Murugan:    • Aadil Raza Mansoori, Anjum Hasan, Eliza Gr...  
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