Author: Geeta Dharamrajan
Editor(s): Geeta Dharamrajan
Publisher: Katha
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 292
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187649704
Description
This volume carries the best short fiction published in fifteen Indian languages in ten volumes of Katha Prize Stories, and chosen by Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Govind Nihalani, Gulzar, Rituparno Ghosh and Sharmila Tagore.
For a whole decade, Katha’s search for excellence has brought to readers some of the best stories being written in our myriad languages. This year, to celebrate the crop of the 90s, Katha invited five giants of Indian cinema to choose the best for us. And here they are-just for your reading pleasure. Right off the top draw-from one hundred and fifty award-winning stories from fifteen languages- stories that were chosen by discerning editors of respected magazines and journals in the first place, then through a rigorous, eclectic process, once again by our nominating editors. Come home to good fiction… Come home to Katha!
REVIEWS
The conception and execution of Katha Prize Stories series… represents a unique and special moment in Indian publishing history.
-The Economic Times
An extraordinary non-profit company called Katha…has begun to salvage the lost classics of modern India, translating them into English with flair and publishing them in beautiful editions.
-The Independent, UK
Contents
Award Process and Awardees
Acknowledgemnts
The Nominating Editors
Preface
The Full Moon in Winter
Reflowering
Little Earthquakes
The Verdict
The Magic Nymph
The Return
The Weight
Aaghori
Purana Katha
The Whale
Mohdi
The Broker
Swadeshyatra
The Witness
The story of the Firebird, Red Rabbit & the Endangered Tribes
Contributor’s Notes
A Select List of Regional Magazines