Winner
of the
MILKWEED AWARD
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Congratulations to Dilman Dila
for having his short story "Homecoming"
selected among the 2008 Million
Writers Award
Notable Stories of 2007.
Crispin Oduobuk's
short story "Maiduguri Road"
was selected among the 2007 Million
Writers Award Notable Stories of 2006.
Anjana
Basu's "The Black Tongue"
and Mita Ghose's "Grey,
White, Yellow" were selected as Notable Stories of 2005 in the 2006
StorySouth Million Writers Award. Anjana Basu's story "The
Black Tongue" place third among the Top 10.
Mohammad Nasrullah
Khan and Marlene Amero's story "Donkey Man"
was
selected among
the Notable Online Short Stories of 2003 in the StorySouth
Million Writers Award.
Anand
Villa
A Short Story
By Tirumal Mundargi
(India)
He bought saplings and fenced in the open space surrounding the property
with barbed wire. He placed pots of ornamental plants at the entranceway,
along the staircase and on the balcony. Soon the house was green with vegetation.
At the housewarming ceremony the guests exclaimed, "What a house!
A masterpiece!"
This
Land Is My Land
A
Letter from Calcutta
By
Anjana Basu
(India)
The killings were all the more shocking because the villagers
who had confronted the police had apparently gone prepared for an unarmed
demonstration. There were women and children in the front ranks who had
apparently been used as shields by their menfolk in an attempt to prevent
what happened.
Uganda's
Silver Screens
A
Letter from Uganda
By Dilman Dila
(Uganda)
Eventually, there are two parallel stories being told – the one by the
filmmaker and the one by the translator, sometimes very different from
each other.
The
Memory Keeper
From
the Novel
By
Anjana Basu
(India)
“For memory is an imagination of a sort,” the Old Ones had told her.
“And even the lies we tell hold some shadow of reality.”
An
Arabic Feast
A Review
By Gretchen McCullough
(USA/Egypt)
The American
University in Cairo’s Press Book of Modern Arabic Literature
Edited by Denys Johnson-Davies
The
Creeping Red Tide
A Review
By Anjana Basu
Red Sun: Travels in Naxalite
Country
By Sudeep Chakravarti
The
Color of Evil
By Gowanus Editor
Thomas J. Hubschman
The eyes of the killers, those evil,
infinite chambers of supernatural mischief were always and most emphatically
"black." Did anyone describe Serbian or Khmer Rouge eyes that way?
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