JCB Prize for Literature: An interview with Perumal Murugan, the shortlisted author of Fire Bird скачать в хорошем качестве

JCB Prize for Literature: An interview with Perumal Murugan, the shortlisted author of Fire Bird

This is the first of the Scroll Books and Ideas interviews with the shortlisted authors and translators of the 2023 JCB Prize for Literature. In this episode, Perumal Murugan, shortlisted for Fire Bird, and interpreter Kavitha M, join Arunava Sinha to talk about the book. ‘Land is a part of me. I cannot live without it. I might be an educator now but land is still very important to my existence.’ But Perumal Murugan’s Fire Bird, translated from the Tamil by Janani Kannan does not stop at land as a literal source of life and death; rather, it carves avenues for extended explorations of belonging and longing, of land as not just acres of yield but ground on which to find your feet. Murugan uses farming as a pivot from which to tell different stories not only about the tangled relations between people and land but also about how ties between people are routed through space. Fire Bird never lets us forget that any sense of footing we have in this world is unstable – an understanding its narrative structure reinforces. #firebird #perumalmurugan #jananikannan #perumalmuruganinterview #2023jcbprizeforliterature #jcbprizeforliteratureshortlist #translation #indianfiction #indianwriting #indiannovels