COMMONWEALTH WRITERS’ PRIZE 2010 7 APRIL – 12 APRIL 2010 NEW DELHI PROGRAMME (Subject to change) Wednesday, 7th April 2010 9.30am – 11.45am ACT TO ALPHABET: THE FANTASTICAL AND THE REAL – Creative Writing Workshop Mari Heese, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, Michael Crummey, Shandi Mitchell, Rana Dasgupta, Daniyal Mueenuddin, and Glenda Guest Venue – Bal Bharati […]
COMMONWEALTH WRITERS’ PRIZE 2010 7th – 12th April 2010 PROGRAMME New Delhi, India The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (CWP), London, is one of the world’s major literary prizes. It aims at promoting new voices, rewarding achievement, encouraging wider readership and greater literacy, thereby increasing appreciation of different cultures and building an understanding between them. Each year
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Category: Fiction/ YA Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India Kuzerazi, a land where magic is forbidden, a place which carefully guards its secrets. It is this hostile land that holds the key to the artifacts and writings that baffle Marik Yavi, a talented word mage from Koda. When Yavi’s attempts to decipher his grandfather’s legacy throw up
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Category: Fiction Publisher: Niyogi Books A period novel set in World War-II in pre-Independence India, Asia and Europe. It fuses myth, fact and fiction to produce a high-octane and heady cocktail. A patriotic Nazi and an honorable English soldier are joined by a reluctant Indian cricketer in a race to acquire forbidden knowledge which will change the
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Category: Fiction Publisher: Niyogi Books As Maya drove to her parents’ house, she reflected on her meeting with Toni. So, Tulsi had been doing research. This seemed to be a clue. Maybe she had found the story of the widow Thulasi’s murder or Achale’s story in the archives—how easily the names came to mind; it was almost
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Category: Young Adult Publisher (India): Hachette India Publisher (Australia): Allen & Unwin Close to his tenth birthday, Abbas has to leave his parents and friends as well as flee Tehran. If Abbas doesn’t leave soon, he will have to go to war. In the strange and often frightening city of Istanbul, Abbas has to grow up
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Category: Literary Fiction Publisher (India): HarperCollins Publishers India Publisher (UK): Constable and Robinson Publisher (USA): Interlink Books How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position tells the interlinked stories of three unforgettable men – the flamboyant Ravi, the fundamentalist Karim and the unnamed and pragmatic Pakistani narrator – whose trajectories cross in Denmark. When a
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Category: Short Stories Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India Rights: World rights available (excluding Indian subcontinent) Time is arguably our biggest enemy. And memory, perhaps, our greatest curse. Which makes forgetting the hardest thing to do. These are stories of difficult pasts, and the struggle to leave them behind. Identical-twin rickshaw drivers are wrongly suspected of terrorism
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Category: Parenting Publisher: Amaryllis Books “Are you still working?” “Can you do yoga?” “Is the baby kicking yet?” “Why aren’t you drinking?” Lalita Iyer spent her pregnancy fielding millions of such questions, listening to thoroughly useless bits of advice and untruths, feeling utterly nauseated by manicured baby books that featured pristine mothers with hair, make-up
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