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Vanamala Viswanatha in conversation with Anjum Hasan on Kuvempu's Epic Novel- BRIDE IN THE HILLS | 15 February, 5:30 PM

book discussion

Join us at the bookstore to tune into this conversation between Vanamala Viswanatha and Anjum Hasan as they discuss Kuvempu's Epic Novel (Penguin's Modern Classics Series, 2024) BRIDE IN THE HILLS. 

Here are the details of the event- 

DAY- Saturday

DATE- 15th February 

TIME- 5:30 PM

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BRIDE IN THE HILLS tells the love stories of young men and women aspiring for a life of freedom, dignity and fulfilment in marriage within a caste-ridden social order. Kuvempu's multi-centred text, with its organic weave of varied narrative strands, much like the Mahabharata, is epic in substance and style. The novel, which is rooted in the regional realities of Malnad, is yet another example of the diversity of modern Indian literature.

This epic novel with the sweep of a Tolstoy classic enacts its mission statement: 'Here, nobody is important; nobody is unimportant; nothing is insignificant!' with brilliance, energy and imaginative power.

About the speakers 

Vanamala Viswanatha has taught English language and literature during the last 40 years. She is an award-winning translator who works with Kannada and English. She has served as Honorary Director of the Centre for Translation at Sahitya Akademi, Bengaluru, and a member of the Advisory Committee, National Translation Mission. Vanamala has also translated Raghavanka’s medieval epic Harischandra Kavyam for the Murty Classical Library of India, which has been translating the greatest literary works of India from the past two millennia for larger readership in the world. 

Anjum Hasan is the author of the novels THE COSMOPOLITANS, NETI, NETI and LUNATIC IN MY HEAD, and the short story collections A DAY IN THE LIFE AND DIFFICULT PLEASURES. She has also published a book of poems called STREET ON THE HILL. Her latest novel, HISTORY'S ANGEL recently won the Godrej LitLive! Fiction Book of the Year and FICCI Fiction Book of the Year awards. Anjum writes for various publications including the Los Angeles Review of Books and the New York Review of Books.


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