May 31, 8 p.m. Aula Magna Regina
The Summer Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation welcomes author Siddharth Shanghvi, who will read a selection of his works.
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi’s debut novel, The Last Song of Dusk, won the Betty Trask Award in the UK, the Premio Grinzane Cavour in Italy, and was nominated for the IMPAC Prize in Ireland. Translated into 12 languages, The Last Song of Dusk was an international bestseller. Shanghvi has been voted: India Today’s 50 Most Powerful Young Indians; Times of India’s 10 Global Indians; Hindustan Times: 10 Most Creative Men; Sunday Times UK: The Next Big Thing; New Statesmen UK: India’s Ten Bright Lights; Elle Magazine’s 50 Most Stylish People; La Stampa, Italy: World’s 10 Best Dressed Men. Shanghvi’s new novel, The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay, nominated for the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize, has just been published in Italy, and will be published in America in September this year.
RSVP for all events to cwinstitute@johncabot.edu or telephone 06.681.91.223.
(More information HERE.)
The Summer Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation welcomes author Siddharth Shanghvi, who will read a selection of his works.
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi’s debut novel, The Last Song of Dusk, won the Betty Trask Award in the UK, the Premio Grinzane Cavour in Italy, and was nominated for the IMPAC Prize in Ireland. Translated into 12 languages, The Last Song of Dusk was an international bestseller. Shanghvi has been voted: India Today’s 50 Most Powerful Young Indians; Times of India’s 10 Global Indians; Hindustan Times: 10 Most Creative Men; Sunday Times UK: The Next Big Thing; New Statesmen UK: India’s Ten Bright Lights; Elle Magazine’s 50 Most Stylish People; La Stampa, Italy: World’s 10 Best Dressed Men. Shanghvi’s new novel, The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay, nominated for the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize, has just been published in Italy, and will be published in America in September this year.
RSVP for all events to cwinstitute@johncabot.edu or telephone 06.681.91.223.
(More information HERE.)
