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]
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.
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]
Bibliography
Fiction
Everything the Light Touches, HarperCollins, 2022. ISBN0063210045
The Nine-Chambered Heart, HarperCollins India, New Delhi, 2017. ISBN978-93-5277-379-4
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