Prizewinning Fiction
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‘The Sea’: Read the story that won the 2020 Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-to-English translation
The winner: Haider Shahbaz’s translation of ‘Samundar’, by Khalida Hussain.
Khalida Hussain, translated by Haider Shahbaz
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‘Kali_Na’: Indrapramit Das’s sci-fi short story has won the Shirley Jackson award for short fiction
An excerpt from the prizewinning story by the writer from Kolkata.
Indrapramit Das
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Kritika Pandey is the global winner of the £ 5,000 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for this story
An excerpt from the prizewinning story, ‘The Great Indian Tee and Snakes’.
Kritika Pandey
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Why is Sally Rooney’s prizewinning second novel ‘Normal People’ on everyone’s to-be-read list?
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Before the Booker: George Saunders has captivated readers with a twist on realist fiction for years
Before his 2017 Man Booker Prize winning novel ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’, Saunders created a name for himself with short stories like no other.
Nicholas Rixon
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And the winners of 2017 Katha fiction contest are...
Three winners and two honourable mentions for upcoming talent.
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