Author Highlights 🖌️
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Janice Pariat

'.Janice Pariat is an author with a refreshing ability to celebrate many voices and perspectives, and an affinity for nature.'

#JulieBanerjeeMehta writes about the eclectic and atmospheric prose of #EverythingTheLightTouches in this The Telegraph essay:

.Janice Pariat is a Sahitya Akademi Award-winning writer, and her latest book ‘Everything the Light Touches’, was included in ‘The Best Books of 2022’ by The New Yorker. It went on to win the 2023 Sushila Devi Award and the AutHer Award for Best Fiction in 2023 and was longlisted…

#Portrait of a stellar writer! 😊
An evening when we spoke about plants, #BraidingSweetgrass , #EverythingTheLightTouches , and more. ⁦Janice Pariat⁩

Hello Janice Pariat! 🍀✨

Janice Pariat on 'The Art of Editing Fiction' at the Surya Nepal Gatha Nepal Literature Festival 2024.

'The writing invokes wanderlust in readers – be it the hills of Meghalaya, the beauty of Rome, the Himalayan mountains, or the vastness of the Laplands.' HarperCollins Janice Pariat

Read - ‘Everything The Light Touches’ Invokes Wanderlust In Readers
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'Good editors ask very good questions.' Janice Pariat

'The pleasure of getting published is nothing compared to the embarrassment of realising that your work wasn't good.' - Chandrahas Choudhury

The Art of Editing Fiction with Roman Gautam

Everything The Light Touches
Janice Pariat Prateebha

Today's highlight Prateebha Janice Pariat

'The language of colonisation is silence because as colonised people, you don't have the space to sing, to tell stories.' - Janice Pariat
Janice Pariat

“Let us wait, let us listen, we tell the story often and in the telling it is different every time but that you see is the nature of stories...' Janice Pariat and Prateebha Tuladhar begin their session with an invocation to storytelling.
Janice Pariat Prateebha

Somehow Janice Pariat always finds the words that I relate to.

‘Sometimes, the healthiest decision is loving from a far distance.’

This is lovely Janice Pariat

We are thrilled to announce that Janice Pariat is coming to Pokhara for the Nepal Literature Festival 2024. Come meet her there!

This book.

“The book is structured as a nest as it moves to multiple characters and then moves outwards again. The heart of the book is Linnaeus, as he lies in the centre of the narrative, and we all live in a Linnaean world.”

Janice Pariat says as she talks about…

How fiction can shape our understanding of the world: An interview with the wonderful Janice Pariat around her terrific novel #EverythingtheLightTouches , by kavitha in The Federal.

HarperCollins

thefederal.com/category/featu…

.Janice Pariat on her genre-bending novel, ‘Everything the Light Touches,’ its exploration of ways to connect to the world through botany, her reluctance to be boxed in as a North-East writer, and why it’s her most political book so far:
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Have you read Janice Pariat's award-winning novel #EverythingTheLightTouches yet?

Read a The Shillong Times story on the latest award bagged by Pariat: #SushilaDeviAward for Best Fiction 2023!

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