Janice Pariat - Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF)

Sessions

Day 1
10:45 am
The Red Couch

The Yellow Book

Amitava Kumar with Janice Pariat

Day 2
1:45 pm
Tennis Court

Everything the Light Touches

Janice Pariat with Srinath Perur

Bio

Janice Pariat is the author of Boats on Land: A Collection of Short Stories and Seahorse: A Novel. She was awarded the Young Writer Award from the Sahitya Akademi and the Crossword Book Award for Fiction in 2013.
Her novella The Nine Chambered-Heart, bestselling in India, was published in the UK and in ten other languages including Italian, Spanish, French, and German. Her novel Everything the Light Touches is out with HarperCollins India, Borough Press UK, and HarperVia USA. It won the Auther Award for Best Fiction in 2023, and was listed in The New Yorker’s “Best Books of 2022”.
Currently, she lives between Shillong and New Delhi with a cat of many names.