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Geetanjali Shree
Geetanjali Shree is an Indian novelist and short-story writer, born in Uttar Pradesh, India in 1957, who works primarily in her native language, Hindi. Over the course of her expansive career, Shree has published five novels and several short stories, garnering critical acclaim for her contribution to contemporary Hindi fiction. Shree is known for her experimental writing style, feminist narratives, and uniquely poetic prose; her works have been translated into several languages and have often generated immense praise within the international literary community. For her novel Tomb of Sand, Shree was awarded the 2022 International Booker Prize.

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November 2013

Surviving Sundays

Eduardo Halfon

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fiction

November 2013

It was raining in Harlem. I was standing on the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and 162nd Street, my coat...

feature

October 2012

Pressed Up Against the Immediate

Rye Dag Holmboe

feature

October 2012

The author Philip Pullman recently criticised the overuse of the present tense in contemporary literature, a criticism he stretched...

poetry

March 2015

Coup & Bell Curve

Elizabeth Willis

poetry

March 2015

COUP   Mallarmé’s gambling astonished everyone even the poets   An acre of paper sold down a river whose...

 

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