The Woman on the Red Oxide Floor by Shikhandin: Book Launch
Schedule
Sun, 10 Mar, 2024 at 05:30 pm
Location
Pagdandi Bookstore Cafe | Pune, MH
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On Sunday, 10th March, at 5:30 PM, Pune Writers' Group will host an event at Pagdandi Bookstore, Baner, where we will launch The Woman on the Red Oxide Floor and feature novelist, short story writer, poet, and author of the book Shikhandin in conversation with acclaimed poet and novelist Priya Sarukkai Chabria, and Sucharita Dutta Asane, editor, Red River Story.THE BOOK:
The Woman on the Red Oxide Floor by Shikhandin is published by Red River Story, an imprint of Red River, India. This is a novella of ideas, where reality and dreamscape merge and dissipate, disrupting the flow of time.
The novella as a prose form demands precision and conciseness, even as it seeks to grapple with expansive ideas. The Woman on the Red Oxide Floor is just such a courageous work – a play of the imagination, untethered, a fantastical leap of faith. It draws in elements of different genres, creating a sense of strangeness that challenges our notions of comfort and discomfort.
‘Shikhandin challenges and surprises the readers’
– Shashi Deshpande
‘Shikhandin’s evocative novella traverses through the inner and outer scapes of the consciousness of the protagonists’
– Sukrita Paul Kumar
‘Bridges the cosmic and the intimate … with elegant prose and unflinching honesty’
– Samit Basu
THE HOSTS:
Shikhandin is the nom de plume of an Indian writer who writes for adults and children. She is an alumnus of The Anam Cara Writing Workshop, Ireland. Her published books, as Shikhandin, include “Immoderate Men” (Speaking Tiger), and “Vibhuti Cat” (Duckbill-Penguin-RHI).
Contributor to Magic Stories for Eight-Year-Olds by Penguin RHI, and Flipped: An Anthology of School and Sports Stories by Harper Collins; Shikhandin’s honours include pushcart nomination by Aeolian Harp (USA) 2019, winner of 2017 Children First Contest curated by Duckbill in association with Parag an initiative of Tata Trust.
First prize, Brilliant Flash Fiction Contest 2019 (USA); runner-up, Half and One Short Story Competition (India); Shortlist Erbacce Poetry Prize (UK); 35th Moon Prize (Writing in a Woman’s Voice: the USA); first runner up, The DNA-OoP Short Story Contest 2016 (India); second Prize, India Currents Katha Short Story Contest 2016 (USA); first prize, Anam Cara Short Fiction Competition 2012 (Ireland); long list, Bridport Poetry Prize 2006 (UK); finalist, Aesthetica Poetry Contest 2010 (UK); Pushcart nominee by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal 2011 (Hong Kong).
Priya Sarukkai Chabria is an award-winning poet, writer, translator, and curator of eleven books that include four poetry collections, two SF novels, translations from Classical Tamil, literary nonfiction, a novel, and two poetry anthologies. She won the Muse India Translation Prize (2017), the Kitaab Experimental Story Award, and Best Reads from Feminist Press (2018). She has also been recognised for her Outstanding Contribution to Literature by the Government of India.
She is the founder-editor of Poetry at Sangam.
Sucharita Dutta-Asane is a writer and independent book editor based in Pune. She is the author of Cast Out and Other Stories (2018).
Her stories and book reviews have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies. She edits Red River Story, an imprint of Red River. She edits fiction for the Bangalore Review and teaches a course in Writing and Editing to postgraduate students at Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce.
She is a member, Advisory Board, Department of Languages and Humanities, Christ (deemed University), Lavasa, Pune.
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Where is it happening?
Pagdandi Bookstore Cafe, Regent Plaza, Baner, Pune 411045, India,Pune, MaharashtraEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
