3/17/2022 4:21:23 PM

SOURCE- THE INDIAN EXPRESS


Malayalam author Sarah Joseph was named the winner of SheThePeople’s inaugural Women Writer’s Prize 2021 for her novel “Budhini” on Wednesday.


The book, translated from Malayalam by Sangeetha Sreenivasan, was chosen from a shortlist of six works by a jury comprising Preeti Gill, G Sampath and Lakshmi Subodh.


shortlisted works : “A Mirror Made of Rain” (Naheed Phiroze Patel); “A Red-necked Green Bird” (Ambai, translated by GJV Prasad); “Sisterhood of Swans” (Selma Carvalho); “The Begum and the Dastan” (Tarana Khan); and “What We Know About Her” (Krupa Ge).

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