DSC prize interviews: celebrating on South Asian literature

At the end of November the shortlist for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature was revealed at LSE. Sonali Campion conducted interviews at the event with the prize’s co-founder Surina Narula MBE, shortlisted author Romesh Gunesekera and chair of the judging panel Keki Daruwalla. On the eve of the Jaipur Literature Festival where the DSC Prize winner will be announced, India at LSE shares their reflections on the prize, the shortlist and writing about South Asia

SECOND READING

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Stringhoppers

In 1956, my father was thirty-nine years old. He didn\u27t even know how to boil an egg. But within two years he was creating the kookiest dinners in Washington and had the World Bank eating out of his hand. When he got back, everybody wanted to know how he had done it. \u27Easy,\u27 he would say, shrugging his big, round shoulders. \u27Stringhoppers. I fed them stringhoppers.\u27 His friends were mystified

Monkfish Moon/ Gunesekera

138 hal.; 18 cm