A Death in Shonagachhi Rijula Das with Kanishka Gupta | Jaipur Literature Festival 2022 |
A Death in Shonagachhi
Rijula Das in conversation with Kanishka Gupta
Presented by Amar Ujala
Rijula Das’ engrossing literary debut is a story of the oldest profession and the lives, dreams, dangers and misadventures born in the red-light district of Shonagachhi. Ruthless as it is tender, A Death in Shonagachhi reveals the catacombs of societal divisions and the impediments to dignity, love and humanity. Following many years of research on sexual violence and its connection with public spaces, Das discusses her unblinking novel based in Calcutta’s most fabled, Shonagachhi.
Rijula Das’s debut novel, A Death in Shonagachhi, won the Tata Lit Live First Book Award and was longlisted for the JCB Prize in 2021. It is forthcoming as Small Deaths in the USA and the world in June 2022 by Amazon Crossing. Das is a recipient of the 2019 Michael King Writers Centre Residency in Auckland and the 2016 Dastaan Award for her short story, Notes From A Passing. Her short story, The Grave of The Heart Eater, was longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2019.
Kanishka Gupta is a literary agent, writer and publishing commentator best known for his hugely acclaimed series for called ’Publishing and the Pandemic’. He is the founder of Writer’s Side, the largest literary agency and consultancy in South Asia. Gupta has been credited for single-handedly popularising literary representation in the subcontinent. His first novel was longlisted for the Asian Booker Prize in 2009 and was published in 2010.
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