Indian bags C’wealth short story prize
New Delhi: Prof. Parashar Kulkarni has become the first Indian author to win the Commonwealth short story prize, beating almost 4,000 entries for the £ 5,000 award with the first short story he has ever written.
The assistant professor in social sciences at Yale NUS College in Singapore, was presented the prize by Man Booker Prize winner and former short story judge Marlon James at the Calabash Literary Festival in Jamaica on June 5.
The winning story, Cow and Company is a narrative set in India in the 1990s about four men who go in search of a cow to feature in an advertisement for chewing gum.
“I am very happy to receive the Commonwealth short story prize which provides an inclusive, accessible and international platform for participation which is particularly helpful for new writers,” Prof. Kulkarni said in a statement. Nearly
The assistant professor in Social Sciences at Yale NUS College in Singapore was presented the prize by Man Booker Prize winner Marlon James at the Calabash Literary Festival in Jamaica on June 5
4,000 entries from 47 different countries were received for this year’s award, for the best piece of unpublished short fiction in English by a writer from a Commonwealth country. The award has been in vogue for five years now.