Janice Patriat - Poet and Writer
Janice Patriat the Author of " The Nine Chambered Heart" reading a paragraph from her book at Times Litfest 2018 in Bengaluru.
" Janice Pariat’s latest novel "The Nine-Chambered Heart " is a woman's story from the perspective of nine different men she has had one or the other kind of relationship with. It is a fairly unique way of storytelling, with personality providing both drift and plot. And it succeeds in posing fairly interesting question — can people be the story?"
She was born in Assam and grew up in Shillong, Meghalaya. Boats on Land her debut collection of short stories, won the 2013 Sahitya Akademi Young Writer Award for the English language and the 2013 Crossword Book Award for fiction.
Janice Patriat - Poet and Writer
Janice Patriat the Author of " The Nine Chambered Heart" reading a paragraph from her book at Times Litfest 2018 in Bengaluru.
" Janice Pariat’s latest novel "The Nine-Chambered Heart " is a woman's story from the perspective of nine different men she has had one or the other kind of relationship with. It is a fairly unique way of storytelling, with personality providing both drift and plot. And it succeeds in posing fairly interesting question — can people be the story?"
She was born in Assam and grew up in Shillong, Meghalaya. Boats on Land her debut collection of short stories, won the 2013 Sahitya Akademi Young Writer Award for the English language and the 2013 Crossword Book Award for fiction.