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Indian journalist and author Raghu Karnad was announced as one of the winners of the prestigious Windham-Campbell Award from Yale University. The award, created in 2013, is one of the richest and most lucrative literary awards for English-language writers and each laureate receives $ 1,65,000.
He won the first book of his 2015 book & # 39; Farthest Field: An Indian History of the Second World War & # 39; In 2016, the book was awarded by the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar as a writer in English and by the Hessell-Tiltman Award.
Son of renowned Indian actor and director Girish Karnad, also a Kannada writer, Karnad studied at Oxford and has written for several national and international publications.
Karnad, former employee of Outlook currently holds the position of chief of the information web site office based in Delhi TheWire. [19659002] "When I wrote this book, the idea of a family from southern India – Calicut, Kodagu, Madras – trained in World War II seemed to be too much distant readers of Delhi, let alone the United States, "said Karnad Prospects .
"I imagine that it was wrong, in fact, the subject of Farthest Field is not just about war, nor about the politics of this half-decade – which seemed incredibly dramatic and exciting – head of memory and forgetfulness, how does this happen at the personal and national levels, "he added.
"I am always a little stunned, but also deeply grateful, that this institution and this jury can connect to this story, to my cunning approach – it's a huge validation to write the story. I think that is what produces contradictions and moral enigmas that are in fact universal, or at least relatable, regardless of who and where you are, "said the author moved.
In a tweet, Karnad stated that he would take the moment to remember his agent David Milled, who died in 2016.
I'll take a moment to remind my agent, the warm and spiritual David Miller. He died of a heart attack in December 2016. I would have liked to see this, @drearyagent @RCWLitAgency pic.twitter.com/JIYiRWUMk9
– Raghu Karnad ( @rkarnad) March 14, 2019
Alongside Karnad, Rebecca Solnit, an American writer, was named winner in the documentary category. Irish news writer Danielle McLaughlin and Canadian novelist David Chariandy were declared this year's winners in the fiction category. In the theater category, Korean-American director and playwright Young Jean Lee and Australian playwright Patricia Cornelius announced the award. Whereas, Ishion Hutchinson of Jamaica and the Ghanaian poet Kwame Dawes have been declared winners in the category poetry.
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