Writers, Etc. Session 26

Alliance Francaise de Delhi, Institut Francais en Inde and The French Embassy in India

present

  Writers, Etc. – Session 26

 Jeet Thayil

 in conversation with

Supriya Nair 

13^rd December 2013, 6.30pm

M. L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance française de Delhi

Jeet Thayil’s four poetry collections include English and These Errors Are Correct, which won the Indian Academy of Letters 2013 award for poetry in English. He is the editor of The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets. As a musician and songwriter, he is one half of the contemporary music project Sridhar/Thayil. Jeet Thayil’s debut novel Narcopolis won the 2012 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and was shortlisted for five other prizes, including the Man Booker prize, the Man Asian Literature Pri ze and the Commonwealth Prize.

Supriya Nair is associate editor at The Caravan magazine in New Delhi.

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