Pulitzer Prize

Ann Patchett has once again demonstrated her exceptional writing skills in her ninth novel, which explores the complexities of family dynamics and relationships. Her calm and graceful literary approach draws the reader in without resorting to manipulative techniques. Tom Lake takes us to a cherry farm in America where a mother imparts her life history to her grown-up daughters, revealing the path that led her to her current situation. Cherry orchards near Woods Bay, Montana, USA. (Shutterstock) During the…

You cannot read Vauhini Vara’s new short story collection, This is Salvaged, without coming across a story and / or characters that reflect your own life. Such is the intimacy and compassion with which Vara crafts her fiction and her characters. Many of the stories in Vauhini Vara’s new collection explore the female experiences of biological change, family relationships and loneliness. These are themes also prominent in the work of Mrinalini Mukherjee, whose sculpture Aranyani (1996) is pictured above.…

Dear Reader, PREMIUM Trust by Hernan Diaz Trust is a fashionable book; in an era of false news, it has four versions of the same story. This years co-winner for the Pulitzer fiction prize, this novel is spot on. Starting from it's character of a ghost writer. Truly, the ghost writer is today’s storyteller. If you are in doubt, note this year’s biggest literary celebrity - Prince Harry’s ghost writer J M Moehringer - who by the way, happens to be a Pulitzer prizewinning memoirist himself. Coming back to the…

When readers ask you about parallels between your life and that of Arthur Less – the protagonist of your novels Less (2017) and Less is Lost (2022) – do you feel validated by the curiosity or annoyed that they think you as a novelist have a limited imagination? When people ask me how much of the fiction is drawn from my own life, and how much is not, I often think, “Why do you care? You don’t know me. How does it matter whether I made it up or didn’t?” But I understand if the question comes from an interest in figuring…

One of the well-known names of the literary world, Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926. While she passed away in February 2016, the American novelist gave some rich literary texts that will remain with us for a lifetime. Lee is famously known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which also went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. Despite just publishing two books, Lee received various honours and accolades, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007. On her 94th birth anniversary, here’s…