Join us at the bookstore to tune into this conversation between Avtar Singh and Sumana Mukherjee as they discuss Avtar Singh's latest book INTO THE FOREST a book that cover themes of crime, loneliness and life in a German town.
About the speakers
Avtar Singh is an author and editor. His recent fiction credits include the short story ‘A Scandal in Punjab’ in The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction (2024), and ‘The Corpse Bearer’ in Subnivean.org (shortlisted for the Subnivean prize 2023). His recent non-fiction credits include work in Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, Nikkei Asian Review, India Today and Biblio. Singh was a summer fellow at the MacDowell Colony in 2018. He was founding editor-in-chief of Time Out Delhi, and managing editor of The Indian Quarterly.
His last novel, Necropolis, about crime, poetry and a woman who may be centuries-old (HarperCollins India and Akashic Press, US, 2014), was translated into German as Nekroplis. His first novel was The Beauty of These Present Things (Penguin India, 2000). Among other print credits, his work has been collected in Mumbai Noir, Civil Lines and the essay volume Pilgrim’s India.
He has lived and worked in India, the US and China, and is now based in Germany.
Sumana Mukherjee now works as a writer and editor after a long career in journalism with publications such as The Indian Express, Forbes India and Mint, where she was, at different points, travel and food editor. Her interests in books include food, literary and crime fiction and, most recently, business. She'll travel anywhere for food, with a book in tow.
Details of the event are as follows
DATE- FRIDAY, 2 AUG
TIME- 6 PM
VENUE- Champaca Bookstore
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