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Mridula Koshy

2 comments Posted by The Chasing Iamb at 4/20/2009


Mridula Koshy, writer, coffee-shop lurker, writing group fiend, union organiser and mother of three has a collection of short stories, If It Is Sweet out next month. Look out, world.


You can read the story she wrote for Tehelka's Fiction special here.

A prize-winning story here.

And fabulous recommendations:

In these stories, families are seen in their whole corrosive element, and the poor and disenfranchised are returned to history—in language that’s affecting, tender, unexpected, like translations from a tongue infinitely superior to our own. Mridula Koshy's writing is deeply attentive and fearless, the work of an extraordinary Indian moralist with an unmistakable gift. -- Jeet Thayil

In brooding, otherworldly prose, Mridula Koshy tells us the stories other writers overlook, or do not wish to tell: the household thoughts that must always remain silent, the disavowed dramas of the city, the heartbreaking proximity of opposite emotions.  "If It Is Sweet" is a book of savage, beautiful writing, whose empathy and curiosity flood over the usual barricades of the imagination – and remind us, indeed,what real writing is.-- Rana Dasgupta

Mridula Koshy's voice is fresh and new, animated by a love of language and people that makes these stories remarkably strange and yet disconcertingly familiar.-- Siddhartha Deb

 

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In praise of one scribbling woman

0 comments Posted by The Chasing Iamb at 12/24/2008

Jenny Crusie says:

The problem with being a writer (one of many) is that it's all in our heads. It's not like ditch digging where you can fume all day and still have a perfectly good ditch when you break for dinner.

Parvati Sharma, punctuater extraordinaire, and a crazy dancer after my own heart has done something slightly different. She has dug ditches all day for the last six months, barely broken for dinner, fumed only a little and has got a book contract! P Sharma's anthology of excellent short stories will be published by Zubaan in 2009.

Let us shower her with cigarettes, nymphets and kisses

 

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