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Ananthmurthy on his life and literature |
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Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy,
born December
21, 1932, is a leading contemporary writer in the
Kannada language. He is counted among the most eminent Indian
authors. A winner of India's highest literary honour, the Jnanpith
Award for the Kannada language, he was also honoured with Padma
Bhushan by the Government of India in 1998. His main works include Samskara,
Bhava, Bharathi Pura, and Avasthe. Several of
his novels and short fictions have been made into movies. He
recently came to London's Nehru Centre and talked to Lalit Mohan
Joshi, the editor of South Asian Cinema foundation on his life,
literature and cinema.
To listen
click
here  (English) |
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Booker
Prize after seven yrs of toil and
torments |
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Kiran Desai became the youngest woman
writer to win the 2006 Man Booker Prize. In this remarkably
candid interview she talks about her struggle in New York while writing her second novel 'The Inheritance of Loss'. She pays
her tribute to her mother Anita Desai who was nominated for Booker
Prize three times. She talks about her writing style and her Indianness.
She also talks
about her hobbies from cooking with her mother to listening to Bali
Saggu at one hand and Abida Parveen on the other.
To listen
click
here (English) |
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