Kritika Pandey, a writer from Ranchi, was on Tuesday announced as the regional winner for Asia in the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. ...
Kritika Pandey, a writer from Ranchi, was on Tuesday announced as the regional winner for Asia in the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The 29-year-old writer won for her story The Great Indian Tee and Snakes, which is about two young people trying to navigate the idea of love in an era of hatred and prejudice. The story about a Hindu girl falling in love with a Muslim man had made it to the shortlist for the Asian region.
Set up in 2012, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction from the Commonwealth. It is administered by the Commonwealth Foundation, through it s cultural initiative Commonwealth Writers. Apart from stories translated into English, the prize also accepts stories originally written in Bengali, Chinese, English, Malay, Portuguese, Samoan, Swahili, and Tamil. The prize is given to five regional winners (Asia, Pacific, Africa, Canada and Europe, and Caribbean) who receive £2,500 (about Rs 2.4 lakh) each and an overall winner from among them who receives a total of £5,000 (about Rs 4.72 lakh).
The five regional winners for the 2020 prize were:
- Africa: Nigerian writer Innocent Chizaram Ilo for When a Woman Renounces Motherhood
- Asia: Indian writer Kritika Pandey for The Great Indian Tee and Snakes
- Canada and Europe: - British writer Reyah Martin for...
