Anuk Arudpragasam
Elizabeth Day talks to Anuk Arudpragasam about his new Booker-longlisted novel, A Passage North. Plus celebrating debut writers in later life with Stephen Walsh and Rosanna Amaka.
Elizabeth Day talks to Booker-longlisted Anuk Arudpragasam about A Passage North. His second novel, it follows a young Sri Lankan man's journey back home and to the funeral of his grandmother's carer. Arudpragasam discusses writing a meditative reflection on loss, trauma and yearning in a country where the reverberations of painful civil war remain unavoidable.
Is the publishing industry unhealthily obsessed with youth? Two debut writers who buck the trend, Stephen Walsh and Rosanna Amaka, discuss the benefits to being published later in life, as well as their struggles to have their dreams realised.
And Yassine Belkacemi choses this month's Editor's Pick.
Book List – Sunday 25 July and Thursday 29 July
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
A Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam
The Book of Echoes by Rosanna Amaka
Shine/Variance by Stephen Walsh
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Intimacies by Katie Kitamura
A Separation by Katie Kitamura
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A Literary Postcard from Sri Lanka
Anuk Arudpragasam goes in search of reading in the northern city of Jaffna. From 2016.
Broadcasts
- Sun 25 Jul 2021 16:00Â鶹Éç Radio 4
- Thu 29 Jul 2021 15:30Â鶹Éç Radio 4