A unique collection that reflects present-day vitality and versatility in Indian writing. Ranging from the passionate to the poignant, the personal to the universal, these 15 stories are a moving testament of the human spirit. It is sheer serendipity that the stories all happen to be by women.
Here are seventeen award-winning stories which set new standards for short story writing in India. Coming in the wake of two highly successful earlier volumes, Katha Prize Stories Volume 3 once again celebrates new and established writers - the pioneers and the path-breakers - who have looked with great sensitivity and perception at the moral and psychological paradoxes of our lives.
Katha Prize Stories: 13 Is A Collection Of Six Short Stories And Two Novellas. All Of These Are Katha Award Winning Best Short Fictions First Published In Six Regional Languages Over The Past Two Years.
As Varied As Variety Itself, This Collection Brings To You Trenchant, Very Indian Fictions That Explore Personal Joys And Sorrows, Friendships And Alienations, The Everyday Tenderness And Harshness Of Life.
Here are 14 award winning stories whose common claim is only excellence. Selected initially by the editors of respected journals and magazines across India and published by them during 1987-1990, these stories have been nominated for the Katha Awards by people whose knowledge of their respective languages and literature is well known. The accent is on the inherent heterogeneity of contemporary India, an India constantly negotiating contradictions and coming-together, in fiction that both creates and breaks stereotypes. There is no attempt here to yoke together universal themes or basic conflicts, yet brought serendipitously together is a galaxy of master writers; the pioneers and the path-breakers.
Here are seventeen award winning stories whose common claim is only to excellence. The accent is on the inherent heterogeneity of contemporary India, an India constantly negotiating contradictions and coming-together, in fiction that both creates and breaks stereotypes. There is no attempt here to yoke together universal themes� or basic conflicts, yet brought serendipitously together is a galaxy of master writers - the pioneers and the path breakers looking back with longing and looking ahead with desire.
As The Nation Celebrates Its Fiftieth Year Of Independence, Katha Prize Stories Presents A Stunning, Often Electrifying, Perspective On The Plurality Of Experiences That Is India.
The True Voices of IndiaKatha Prize Stories is a prestigious series of annual anthologies brought out by Katha, India s foremost publisher of Indian language fiction in English translation. These volumes, thirteen of which have been brought out so far from 1991 to 2004, carry the best of contemporary Indian short fiction published every year in reputed journals across the country. Katha prize stories are selected by a panel of eminent writers/critics in the respective languages, which are rendered carefully into English by outstanding translators. Each of these stories is edited by experts so that the excitement of the original is kept in the translated version. Katha prize-winning stories reflect the fast changing pattern of Indian rural as well as urban life and provide deep insight into Indian society at different levels and in different regions while also illuminating the inner life of their characters. Here is one series of Indian short fiction that is certain to make you aware of what existence in India means today, with all its turbulence, pathos, excitement, tenderness, indignation, fast-changing relationships and diverse tones, moods, hues and dimensions.
The Sensitive And Evocative Craftsmanship Of The Katha Award Winning Translators Infuses Each Story With The Flavour Of The Original.