India’s great chronicler of memory, family, identity and belonging sits down to discuss her luminous, genre-defying books and extraordinary literary career.
‘Anything worth doing transcends borders,’ writes Geetanjali Shree in her 2022 International Booker Prize-winning novel, Tomb of Sand. This sentiment also encapsulates her career to date. An author writing in Hindi, with her gaze firmly fixed on the lives and concerns of Indian characters, Shree tells the kind of polyphonic, big-hearted stories that chime with universal truth.
From Our City That Year, an evocative tale of love, loss and the indelible marks left by time, to the poetic and formally inventive short stories in the collection Once Elephants Lived Here, to the lauded Tomb of Sand, Shree’s work offers readers insight into the rich plurality of the world.
Join her for a conversation about the ascendency of South Asian literature, the life-changing impact of winning the International Booker Prize and how storytelling connects us across backgrounds and borders. With Mridula Nath Chakraborty.
Poetry Month aims to increase the profile of Australian poetry and poets. At this event, poet Marjon Mossamaparast will open with a reading of their work, thanks to support from Red Room Poetry.
Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 12 August
6.30 - 7.30pm
Tickets
$22.50
Full
$19.50
Concession
$19.50
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Additional Notes
Geetanjali Shree will be signing books after the event.
The bookseller for this event is Amplify Bookstore.
Featuring
Geetanjali Shree
Winner of the 2022 International Booker Prize, and of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, for her novel, Tomb of Sand (Ret Samadhi in the Hindi original). The novel was shortlisted for the Emile Guimet Prize. ...
Mridula Nath Chakraborty
Dr Mridula Nath Chakraborty teaches and researches on postcolonial feminist studies; diasporic/national literatures in English and in translation; and cinema/culinary traditions of the Indian subcontinent. Mridula’s ...
Marjon Mossamaparast
Marjon Mossammaparast is a poet and teacher from Melbourne. Her debut collection, That Sight (Cordite Books), won the 2019 Mary Gilmore Award and was shortlisted for the 2019 Judith Wright Calanthe Award. ...