The Umricans
Fiction by Aruni Kashyap
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Aruni Kashyap
Aruni Kashyap is an Assamese writer from India. He is the author of the novel The House With a Thousand Stories (Viking/ Penguin, June 2013) : set against a series of widespread extra-judicial killings conducted by the Indian government during the late nineties to curb an armed insurgency. He has also translated from Assamese and introduced celebrated Indian writer Indira Goswami's last work of fiction, The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar, for Zubaan Books (January, 2013) and is editing an anthology of short stories called How To Tell A Story About an Insurgency (HarperCollins, 2018) by writers from Assam set against the Assam Conflict. He won the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing to the University of Edinburgh in 2009. From 2018, he will work as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Georgia, Athens.
Aruni Kashyap is an Assamese writer from India. He is the author of the novel The House With a Thousand Stories (Viking/ Penguin, June 2013) : set against a series of widespread extra-judicial killings conducted by the Indian government during the late nineties to curb an armed insurgency. He has also translated from Assamese and introduced celebrated Indian writer Indira Goswami's last work of fiction, The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar, for Zubaan Books (January, 2013) and is editing an anthology of short stories called How To Tell A Story About an Insurgency (HarperCollins, 2018) by writers from Assam set against the Assam Conflict. He won the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing to the University of Edinburgh in 2009. From 2018, he will work as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Georgia, Athens.
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