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Ingrid Persaud, Short Fiction, Patricia Grace

Mariella Frostrup talks to winner Ingrid Persaud about her Trinidadian-set Love After Love, her stunning debut novel after winning the 大象传媒 National Short Story Award in 2018.

Mariella Frostrup talks to Ingrid Persaud about Love After Love, her stunning debut told from the multiple perspectives of an unconventional Indo-Trinidadian family. Having won the 大象传媒 National Short Story Award in 2018, Persaud explains why she evoked her memories of Trinidad in her first foray in to novel-length fiction.

Continuing the theme, critic John Self picks some short fiction highlights, both classic and forthcoming, for those feeling paradoxically time-poor.

And Patricia Grace explains the conception of her colossal but compact Potiki, recently re-issued. Stella Duffy tells this figurehead of Maori New Zealand writing.

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28 minutes

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  • Sun 19 Apr 2020 16:00
  • Thu 23 Apr 2020 15:30

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