Preeta Samarasan

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Preeta Samarasan is a

Orange Prize for Fiction.[2] A number of short stories have also appeared in different magazines; “Our House Stands in a City of Flowers” won the Hyphen Asian American Short Story Contest or the Asian American Writers' Workshop/Hyphen Short Story award in 2007.[3]

Life

Samarasan was born in

Hamilton College, and then joined the Ph.D. program in musicology at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. She was working on Gypsy music festivals in France, for which she was awarded a Council for European Studies fellowship in 2002.[citation needed] Meanwhile, in 1999 she had started work on her novel, and eventually she gave up on her dissertation to write. In 2006 she graduated from the MFA program in creative writing from the University of Michigan
, where she worked on polishing her novel.

Evening Is the Whole Day

Evening Is the Whole Day focuses on the dark secrets of an affluent

May 13 race riots of 1969 using the cameo characters "Rumour" and "Fact". It was nominated for the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2009 for the Best First Book Award.[7]

Samarasan currently lives in the Limousin region of France with her husband and two daughters.[8]

Works

Novels

  • Evening Is the Whole Day (2008)
  • Tale of the Dreamer’s Son (2022)

Short stories

  • "Our House Stands In A City Of Flowers", Hyphen (February 2007)
  • "Trippin' Out", Hyphen (August 2007)
  • "A Rightful Share", Guernica Mag (November 2009)
  • "Blue", Readings From Readings 2, Sharon Bakar and Bernice Chauly (ed.) (2012)
  • "Rukun Tetangga", KL Noir: Red, Amir Muhammad (ed.) (2013)
  • "Common Ground", unpublished - translated into French in Nouvelles de Malaisie (2016), Brigitte Bresson (tr.)
  • "Birch Memorial", A Public Space, Issue 6 (Winter 2007) - republished in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2010, Laura Furman (ed.)
  • "Girl on the Mountain" and "Red and White", The Principal Girl: Feminist Tales from Asia (2019)
  • "Useless", Mekong Review, Issue 15 (April 2019) - translated into French in Jentayu (Winter 2019), Brigitte Bresson (tr.)

Essays

References

  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-01. Retrieved 2009-06-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Orange Prize Remedies – Official Blog".
  3. ^ Hyphen (magazine) issue 11 (fall 2007)
  4. ^ "Preeta Samarasan".
  5. ^ "Sunday People * NST Online". Archived from the original on 2008-09-12. Retrieved 2009-06-24.
  6. New York Times review by Allegra Goodman
    : "even if the seams don't match perfectly, Samarasan's fabric is gorgeous."
  7. ^ "News". Archived from the original on 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
  8. ^ "An afternoon with Preeta Samarasan « the Asian Writer Blog". Archived from the original on 2009-06-08. Retrieved 2009-06-24.

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