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Rohinton Mistry is an India born Canadian author who is a Neustadt International Prize for Literature laureate (2012). His first book Tales from Firozsha Baag (1987) published by Penguin Books Canada is a collection of 11 short stories.
The Woman on Platform 8 is a short story written by Indian author Ruskin Bond. [1] [2] It is narrated in first person by a schoolboy named Arun, and recounts an encounter with a mysterious woman in a train station. [3] The story was first published in The Illustrated Weekly of India between 1955 and 1958. [4]
Laburnum for My Head (2009) is the collection of eight short stories by Indian author Temsüla Ao. The stories are about the lives of people from the vibrant and troubled region of Nagaland in northeast India. The collection brought its author the 2013 Sahitya Akademi Award for English, conferred by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy ...
Anita Nair (born 26 January 1966) is an Indian novelist who writes her books in English. She is best known for her novels A Better Man, Mistress, and Lessons in Forgetting. [1] She has also written poetry, essays, short stories, crime fiction, historical fiction, romance, and children's literature, including Muezza and Baby Jaan: Stories from ...
The book draws on novels that have been translated from Indian languages into English (prominently Bankimchandra Chatterjee's Anandamath and Rabindranath Tagore's The Home and the World), [2] but focuses on works composed originally in English, whose status in India Gopal characterises as "rootless" yet also India's pan-national tongue. [3]
Raja Rao (8 November 1908 – 8 July 2006) was an Indian-American writer of English-language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in metaphysics. The Serpent and the Rope (1960), a semi-autobiographical novel recounting a search for spiritual truth in Europe and India, established him as one of the finest Indian prose stylists and won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1963. [1]
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