Janice Pariat

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Janice Pariat
Janice Pariat an Indian poet and writer , Meghalaya origin India.jpg
Born Jorhat, Assam
OccupationWriter, poet
LanguageEnglish
Notable worksBoats on Land, Seahorse, The Nine Chambered Heart, Everything the light touches

Janice Pariat is an Indian poet and writer. She was born in Assam and grew up in Shillong, Meghalaya. [1] [2]

Contents

Boats on Land (Random House India, 2012), [3] her debut collection of short stories, won the 2013 Sahitya Akademi Young Writer Award for the English language [4] and the 2013 Crossword Book Award for fiction. [5] Pariat is the first writer from Meghalaya to receive an award from the Sahitya Akademi for a work in English. [2]

Janice bagged the Sushila Devi Award [6] for her latest book 'Everything the light touches' for best fiction 2023.

Her latest book 'Everyrhing light touches ' was long listed for JCB Prize for Literature 2023. [7]

Early life and career

Pariat was born in Jorhat, Assam, and grew up between Shillong and several tea estates in Assam. [1] [2] She was educated at Loreto Convent, Shillong and The Assam Valley School. [1] [8] Thereafter she obtained a BA in English Literature from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and an MA in History of Art and/or Archaeology from SOAS, University of London. [1]

She is the editor of online literary journal Pyrta, which she founded in 2010. [9] Her writing has featured in a number of Indian and international magazines, [10] such as Time Out Delhi, [1] The Caravan [11] and Internazionale. [12] Pariat teaches Creative Writing and History of Art at Ashoka University.

Awards and honours

In 2013, Pariat's debut collection of short stories Boats on Land won the Sahitya Akademi Young Writer Award for the English language, [4] and a Crossword Book Award (fiction). [13] The same work was also shortlisted for the 2013 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize, [14] and longlisted for the 2013 uday lakhanpal International Short Story Award [15] [16] and the 2013 Tata Literature Live! First Book Award. [17] Seahorse was shortlisted for The Hindu Literary Prize (2015). [18]

Style

In Boats on Land, Pariat's stories – set between Shillong, Cherrapunji and Assam – undertake fictional re-imaginings of the transformations that swept through Northeast India during a period of three centuries, starting in the 1850s. [19] Weaving together local folklore and tradition with unfolding social and political events, Pariat's style has been likened to magical realism [20] as well as to Haruki Murakami's writing. [21] Jeet Thayil commented on her stories to be 'revelatory and original'. [20]

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Poetry

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