P. Sathyavathi

Here I Am and Other Stories: Short Stories

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sathyavathi's stories are powerful, deeply sensitive and widely varied in their themes, most of her writings concern women - their lives and living, dreams and disappointments, losses and achievements. She is a keen observer and shares her anguish about today's human life and living with us through her stories in urban and rural settings.

Produktdetails

• Ratna Translation
• Verlag: Alpha Edition
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9789352907540
• ISBN-10: 935290754X
• Artikelnr.: 60005186

Autorenporträt

P. SATHYAVATHI became well known with her prize-winning story 'Glasu Pagilindi' in 1977. Illalakagaane (Quest for Identity), a volume of stories, won her the Chaso award and established her as a leading feminist writer in Telugu. Later, she received the Rangavalli award and Telugu University award, among many other prestigious awards. With four novels, five anthologies of short stories and a volume of essays to her credit, she ran a regular column on the early women writers in Bhumika. She has translated into Telugu, to much acclaim, Karen Armstrong's Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet, Ismat Chugtai's stories, A. Revathi's The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story and Y.B. Satyanarayana's My Father Baliah; and is now translating Paula Richman's Many Ramayanas into Telugu. She is presently co-editing an anthology of contemporary Telugu women writers' stories translated into English and to be published by the Sahitya Akademi.