The Greatest Indian Stories Ever Told: Fifty Masterpieces from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
EDITED BY ARUNAVA SINHA
PUBLISHED BY ALEPH, 2023
$ 55.00 NZD
The Greatest Indian Stories Ever Told is a selection of some of the finest literary short fiction written by Indian writers since the genre came into being in the country in the late nineteenth century. Including early masters of the form, contemporary stars, as well as brilliant writers who came of age in the twenty-first century, this anthology takes in its sweep stories from the various regions, languages, and literatures of India. These authors are some of the most feted in the annals of Indian literature and have, between them, won virtually every major literary prize on offer—including the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Jnanpith Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, and numerous state, national, and international honours.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ARUNAVA SINHA translates classic, modern, and contemporary Bengali fiction and non fiction into English. Over forty of his translations have been published so far. He has selected and translated The Greatest Bengali Stories Ever Told and The Moving Shadow: Electrifying Bengali Pulp Fiction. He has won the Crossword Translation Award for Sankar’s Chowringhee (2007) and Anita Agnihotri’s Seventeen (2001). He has also won the Muse India Award for his translation of When the Time is Right (2012). His translation of Chowringhee was shortlisted for The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (2009). His translations have also been published in the UK, US, Europe, and Asia through further translation. He grew up in Kolkata and lives in New Delhi.
INFORMATION
ISBN 9789393852878
526 pages, hardback