Podcast appearances and mentions of Meena Kandasamy

With Roanna Gonsalves | Poet, novelist and activist Meena Kandasamy has been described as a “one-woman agit prop literary-political movement”. She discusses the politics of writing with Roanna Gonsalves. Event details: Mon 04 Mar, 12:00pm

Anjali Joseph, Meena Kandasamy, Perumal Murugan and Nilanjana S. Roy with Roanna Gonsalves | Anjali Joseph, Meena Kandasamy, Perumal Murugan and Nilanjana S. Roy join Roanna Gonsalves for a conversation about the challenge of writing about gender, caste and class within India's rich, complex and diverse literary culture. Event details: Mon 04 Mar, 3:45pm

Episode 6 takes on one little known book and one very, very well-known book. Pandora finally reads A Visit from the Goon Squad and falls in love with Jennifer Egan's entire canon, while Bobby has mixed feelings about one of Pandora's absolute favourite books of recent times, When I Hit You, about a woman's violent marriage to a communist professor in South India.You can get in touch bookchatpod@gmail.comSound by Joel Grove and production by Pandora SykesBooks/articles mentioned:When I Hit You, The Gypsy Goddess and Exquisite Cadavers by Meena KandasamyA Visit from the Goon Squad, Emerald City, Look At Me and The Candy House by Jennifer EganBirnam Wood by Eleanor CattonBurning Questions by Margaret AtwoodGirlfriend on Mars by Deborah WillisOpen Throat by Henry HokeOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongDiary of a Bad Year by J.M. CoetzeeJennifer Egan on Radio 4 Book ClubStephanie Sy-Quia reviews Meena Kandasamy for LARB Books for episode 7:Close Range by Annie ProulxA Girl's Story by Annie ErnauxPlease note, we will be taking a seasonal break for June, and will be back on July 1st. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

97 – Books Are My people with Priya GunsWant more book recommendations in your life? Sign up for my weekly newsletter! Want to send a little love my way? Leave me a review or rating wherever you listen to Books Are My People.  Click any book to be taken to my bookshop.org affiliate page and support the show! Episode Guest: Your Driver is Waiting by Priya GunsGuest Author Recommendation:  A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness: Stories by Jai ChakrabartiBooks Recommended:Exquisite Cadavers by Meena KandasamyEndpapers by Jennifer Savran KellyBeauty is a Wound by Eka KurniawanYerba Buena by Nina LacourA Cup of Rage by Raduan NassarOther Books Discussed:Tom Ripley Novels by Patricia HighsmithLong Division by Kiese LaymonThe Perfect Nanny by Leila SlimaniIn the Country by Mia AlvarLetters to a Writer of Color edited by Deepa Anappara and Taymour SoomroBored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella You can read "Prodigal Son," by Jai Chaibrakarty at Electric Literature.Support the showI hope you all have a wonderfully bookish week!

Our guest for this year's Valentine's Special is one of the most innovative, radical and compelling writers at work today Meena Kandasamy. This year Meena returns to poetry with The Book of Desire, a new translation of the third part of the Thirukural, the foundational poem of Tamil culture. With her new version, Kandasamy offers a feminist interventionist translation that feels fresh, lively and sensual. Meena Kandasamy's The Book of Desire is a genuine marvel.Buy The Book of Desire: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/7747662/kandasamy-meena-the-book-of-desire*SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR BONUS EPISODESLooking for Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses? https://podfollow.com/sandcoulyssesIf you want to spend even more time at Shakespeare and Company, you can now subscribe for bonus episodes and access to complete chapters of Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses.Subscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandcoSubscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/shakespeare-and-company-writers-books-and-paris/id1040121937?l=enAll money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop's non-profit, created to fund our noncommercial activities—from the upstairs reading library, to the writers-in-residence program, to our charitable collaborations, and our free events.*Poet, novelist, activist and translator, Meena Kandasamy has published two collections of poetry, Touch (2006) and Ms. Militancy (2010), and the critically acclaimed novel, Gypsy Goddess. Her second novel, When I Hit You, was chosen as a book of the year by The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, and The Observer and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018. In 2022, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was awarded International Pen's Hermann Kesten Prize for her work as “a fearless fighter for democracy, human rights and the free word.”Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Buy a signed copy of his novel Feeding Time here: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/7209940/biles-adam-feeding-timeListen to Alex Freiman's Play It Gentle here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1 Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Salma is a Tamil author, poet, politician and activist. Her novel மனாமியங்கள் published in 2017 was translated to English by Meena Kandasamy and published as Women, Dreaming. The book takes you into the inner world of women, women who have little opportunity to experience the world outside. Salma spoke to us of the escape books have provided, her desire for freedom and how she transgressed the boundaries laid down for her. Plus a reading from her book.  This episode was edited and produced by Samyuktha Varma. Our Senior Producer is Menaka Raman. Our Sound producer is Yashwanth Vinay. Our Associate Producer is Ashrita Achar. City of Women is executive produced, hosted, and written by Radhika Viswanathan and Samyuktha Varma. City of Women is a Vaaka Media production. Find us on Instagram at @cityofwomenpodcast or on Twitter @thecityofwomen

Literary translations are everywhere, but how and why they're undertaken is often hidden. In this special episode, that coincides with the beginning of Women in Translation Month, poet and novelist Meena Kandasamy explains her routes into and through her translation of Tamil writer Salma's novel Women Dreaming. The book details the experiences of an extended family of Muslim women who live and long in a small village, and who are forced to confront cultural and practical obstacles to the attainment of their dreams. In this episode, Meena discusses Salma's reputation and importance in India, the way the translation of her work lived alongside major events in Meena's own life, and the political stakes of a book that some critics dismissed as a simple narrative of tearful women. ‘Translation is an activity of love and trust.' Craft is brought to you by Wasafiri, the magazine of international contemporary literature. Check out our website, www.wasafiri.org, for outtakes and a full transcript of this interview, and much more from writers all over the world. *** As a special offer, Tilted Axis Press, publishers of Women Dreaming, are providing 20% off purchases of the novel to all Craft listeners with the code CRAFT20 *** See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This episode is a live session from Jaipur Lit Fest 2022. This Poem Will Provoke You: Meena Kandasamy in conversation with Manasi Subramaniam.

Pages 884 - 889 │ Penelope, part IV │ Read by Meena KandasamyMeena Kandasamy (b. 1984) is a poet, novelist and translator. Her writing aims to deconstruct trauma/violence, focussing on resistance movements for caste annihilation, feminism and self-determination. She explores this in her poetry and prose, most notably in her books of poems such as Touch (2006) and Ms. Militancy (2010) as well as her three novels, The Gypsy Goddess (2014), When I Hit You (2017), and Exquisite Cadavers (2019). Her novels have been shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Jhalak Prize and the Hindu Lit Prize. She has been a fellow of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program (2009) and a Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow (2011). Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You, her latest collection of poetry is to be published this yearBuy Exquisite Cadavers here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9781786499653/exquisite-cadaversFollow on Twitter: www.twitter.com/meenakandasamyFollow on Instagram: www.instagram.com/k.a.n.d.a.s.a.m.y*Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-companySUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURESAll episodes of our Ulysses podcast are free and available to everyone. However, if you want to be the first to hear the recordings, by subscribing, you can now get early access to recordings of complete sections.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/shakespeare-and-company/id6442697026Subscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandcoIn addition a subscription gets you access to regular bonus episodes of our author interview podcast. All money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop's non-profit.*Discover more about Shakespeare and Company here: https://shakespeareandcompany.comBuy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulyssesFind out more about Hay Festival here: https://www.hayfestival.com/homeAdam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Find out more about him here: https://www.adambiles.netBuy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-timeDr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco.Original music & sound design by Alex Freiman.Hear more from Alex Freiman here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1Follow Alex Freiman on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alex.guitarfreiman/Featuring Flora Hibberd on vocals.Hear more of Flora Hibberd here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5EFG7rqfVfdyaXiRZbRkpSVisit Flora Hibberd's website: This is my website:florahibberd.com and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/florahibberd/ Music production by Adrien Chicot.Hear more from Adrien Chicot here: https://bbact.lnk.to/utco90/Follow Adrien Chicot on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/adrienchicot/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Translator and editor Anam Zafar and poet, novelist and translator Meena Kandasamy discuss translation as activism and helping under-represented communities to tell their own stories. Anam was mentored by Meena on NCW's Emerging Translator Mentorship programme, supported by Visible Communities. We have a discount for Writing Life listeners, courtesy of our friends at Bloomsbury! Until 1 March 2022 anyone in the UK can get 25% off the workbook as long as you buy through the Bloomsbury website. The code is AWJW25 and can be used here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writers-journal-workbook-9781472987365/  Find out more about what we do: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/ Hosted by Steph McKenna. Music by Bennet Maples.

Support LCA : https://www.patreon.com/azadiIn this episode of LCA we discuss the life of Dr Meena, many heart breaking incidents of caste atrocities, role of social media, being bought up in an anti-caste household, and lastly the Bhima Koregaon case. Meena Kandasamy (born 1984) is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and activist from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Meena published two collections of poetry, Touch (2006) and Ms. Militancy (2010). From 2001-2002, she edited The Dalit, a bi-monthly alternative English magazine of the Dalit Media Network. 3:30 to 7:50How did Dr Meena become a writer?7:50 to 13:22Kilvenmani Massacre13:22 to 21:05How has Tamil Nadu changed in all these years from anti caste perspective?21:05 to 25:30Challenges in getting published.25:30 to 31:30The role of social media in current political times31:30 to 43:00What was it like to bought up in an anti-caste household?43:00 to 44:45Is Ambedkarism/Periyarism at odds at Hindutva? 44:45 to 51:36Bhima Koregaon51:36 to endDo you see hope in Congress?Mandal Commission - http://www.ncbc.nic.in/User_Panel/UserView.aspx?TypeID=1161Indra Swahney Case - https://byjus.com/free-ias-prep/indra-sawhney-case-1992-sc-judgements/Link of #26 The Caste of Law with Nikita and Disha : https://lightscameraazadi.in/podcast/26-the-caste-of-law-with-nikita-and-disha/Kilvenmani massacrehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilvenmani_massacreLaxmanpur Bathe massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laxmanpur_Bathe_massacreKherlanjihttps://www.epw.in/journal/2006/45/editorials/kherlanji-caste-violence.html

Aishwarya talks to award-winning author Meghna Pant about the writer's perspective on publishing and why she wrote her bestselling and path breaking book ‘How To Get Published in India'. Meghna Pant has published 6 books (novels, short story collections and nonfiction) since 2012! In 2019, she published her iconic publishing guidebook, ‘How To Get Published In India', with essays from authors like Meena Kandasamy and Shobhaa De, and publishing experts like literary agent Mita Kapur and book reviewer Vivek Tejuja. Meghna shares some of her rookie mistakes as a newbie author: like not understanding contracts and planning too many book launches! She and Aishwarya discuss how self-publishing has become popular during the pandemic and why every author should learn how to market themselves. They bond over their love for feminist books. How did she turn a screenplay into a book? Why did she retain her audio rights?  Tune in for some fun anecdotes, like how Durjoy Datta has his own fanbase!Book Mentions: Hangwoman by K.R. MeeraHeadscarves and Hymen: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution by Mona EltahawyLean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl SandbergBossypants by Tina FeyMeghna Pant is a multiple award-winning and bestselling author, journalist and speaker. She's published six books, including The Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Good News (Penguin Random House, 2021) , How To Get Published In India (Bloomsbury, 2019), and One & A Half Wife (Westland, 2012). She has won the FON South Asia Short Story Award, Muse India Young Writer Award, Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, Commonwealth Short Story Prize and many more! ‘The Book People' is brought to you by Bound, a company that creates stories and helps individuals and brands tell their stories. Writer and booklover Aishwarya Javalgekar interviews people whose lives and careers revolve around books. Read more: https://boundindia.com/the-book-people-podcast/Soundtrack: Fork and Spoon Pitch your book or podcast to Bound! DM us @boundindia on on Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn. Or send us an email at connect@boundindia.com. Check out our FREE research report on ‘Demystifying Indian Publishing': https://boundindia.com/demystifying-the-indian-publishing-industry/

Writing literary fiction about artificial intelligenceOn this episode of Books and Beyond with Bound Season 2, we talk to Tanuj Solanki about his latest novel, “The Machine Is Learning”, which was longlisted for the JCB Prize. We chat about why he decided to write about technology and the workplace in this literary format.Tanuj tells us about his childhood in Muzaffarnagar and how his family encouraged his reading habits. He tells us how his creative process has changed from spontaneity to planned writing. Tara is impressed that Tanuj finds the time to write between his full time job and his role as the editor of The Bombay Literary Magazine. We chat about translations and how he likes to experiment in his writing. Michelle and Tanuj bond over their preference for short stories over novels and how he dreams of writing a fat novel one day!'Books and Beyond with Bound' is the podcast where Tara Khandelwal and Michelle D'costa of Bound talk to some of the best writers in India and find out what makes them tick.Tanuj Solanki is the author of two novels—The Machine is Learning (longlisted for the JCB Prize) and Neon Noon (shortlisted for the Tata Lit Live First Book Award)—and a short-story collection, Diwali in Muzaffarnagar (winner of the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar).Mentions: Moustache by Hareesh S., The survivors by Gurdial Singh, Your Face Tomorrow Volume 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell by Javier Marías, Meena Kandasamy, Ben LernerYou can get your copy of his book here: https://www.amazon.in/Machine-Learning-Tanuj-Solanki/dp/9389109299 Tune in every Wednesday for a new episode.Follow Bound on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter: @boundindiaFollow our podcast on Instagram: @boundpodcastsYou can check out our website at https://www.boundindia.com/podcast/

A Poem A Day by Sudhanva Deshpande.Read on October 1, 2020.Art by Virkein Dhar.Signature tune by M.D. Pallavi.

Meena Kandasamys Buch "Schläge" ist eine drastische Geste des Widerstands, wenn es um Gewalt gegen Frauen in der Ehe geht. Eine Rezension von Insa Wilke.

In dieser Folge mit Meike, Anika & Robin: „Schläge“ von Meena Kandasamy, „Nach einer wahren Geschichte“ von Delphine de Vigan und „Watership Down - Unten am Fluss“ von Richard Adams. Was gibt‘s Neues zur Frankfurter Buchmesse 2020? Im Vorgeplänkel bringen wir euch auf den aktuellen Stand: Gastland Kanada verschiebt seinen Auftritt auf 2021, dafür haben einige deutsche Verlage ihr Kommen angekündigt. Auch im digitalen Programm tut sich eine ganze Menge – Zeit für profunde Diskussionen.

Wir lesen Joshua Wongs Buch, das in Hongkong gerade aus den Bibliotheken genommen wurde. Und fahren in den Urlaub nach Island. Und lernen etwas über afrikanische Literaturen. Und besuchen eine Westerwälder Buchhandlung. Und lassen uns von Jan Peter Bremer einen Lesetipp geben. Und reden über häusliche Gewalt in Indien. Und hören von Nora Gomringer, was ein Dichter nach der Lesung macht.Joshua Wong: "Unfree Speech" Aus dem Englischen von Irmengard GablerVerlag S. FischerISBN: 978-3-10-491265-316 Euro(Kurzkritik von Katharina Borchardt)Gerwin van der Werf: "Der Anhalter" Aus dem Niederländischen von Marlene Müller-HaasVerlag S. FischerISBN: 978-3-10-397466-920 Euro(Rezension von Marten Hahn)"Nehmen Sie den Weg nach Süden. Eine literarische Reise durch Afrika" Herausgegeben von Anita Djafari und Manfred LoimeierPeter Hammer Verlag22 Euro(Gespräch mit dem Herausgeber Manfred Loimeier)"Riesig ist keine Westerwälder Dimension" Der kleine, feine "buchladen" in Wissen an der Sieg(Reportage von Claudia Fuchs)Sigrid Nunez: "Der Freund"Aus dem Englischen von Anette GrubeAufbau VerlagISBN: 978-3-351-03486-3 20 Euro(Lesetipp des Autors Jan Peter Bremer)Meena Kandasamy: "Schläge. Ein Porträt der Autorin als junge Ehefrau"Aus dem Englischen von Karen GerwigVerlag CulturbooksISBN: 978-395988148722 Euro(Lesung + Gespräch mit Claudia Kramatschek)Nora Gomringer: "Was wirklich geschieht"Gedicht aus dem Band "Gottesanbieterin"Buch mit CDVerlag Voland & QuistISBN: 978386391250520 Euro(Lesung von Nora Gomringer)

Sie ist eine gebildete Frau. Und sie ist Feministin. Trotzdem heiratet sie einen Mann, der sie schlägt. So ist es der indischen Autorin Meena Kandasamy passiert. Aus ihren Ehe-Erfahrungen hat sie einen Roman gemacht, der erzählt, was passiert ist, der aber auch mit allen Wassern der kritischen Reflexion gewaschen ist. Ein überaus scharfsinniges Werk.Lesung + Gespräch mit Claudia KramatschekAus dem Englischen von Karen GerwigVerlag CulturbooksISBN: 978-395988148722 Euro

Eine Frau wird von ihrem Mann brutal geschlagen, vergewaltigt, isoliert. Doch dann befreit sie sich. Ihre Waffe ist ihre Sprache. Die indische Autorin Meena Kandasamy hat mit "Schläge" einen beeindruckenden autobiographischen Roman verfasst. Von Julia Riedhammer www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Buchkritik Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14 Direkter Link zur Audiodatei

What can international literature teach us about our collective past, present and future in these chaotic times? In the latest GrottoPod Gabfest, producer and Grotto fellow Rita Chang-Eppig talks to Jesus Francisco Sierra, Mathangi Subramanian and Olga Zilberbourg about the appeal of international literature, its necessity in our increasingly connected world, and our favorite authors and books, including Akram Aylisli's Farewell, Aylis! (translated by Katherine E. Young), Perumal Murugan's One Part Woman, Wendy Guerra's Revolution Sunday (translated by Achy Obejas), and Yoko Ogawa's Revenge (translated by Stephen Snyder).  Over the course of the conversation, our guests briefly touched on a number of other books, including: Look at Him by Anna Starobinets, translated by Katherine E. YoungA Life at Noon by Talasbek Asemkulov, translated by Shelley Fairweather-Vega  The Gypsy Goddess, When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife, and Exquisite Cadavers, all by Meena Kandasamy.Ghachar Ghochar, by Vivek ShanbhagMy Life in Trans Activism and The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story by A. RevathiWomen Without Men by Sharhnush ParsipurLeonardo Padura: The Man Who Loved Dogs, Heretics, Havana Gold, Havana Black, Havana Blue, Havana RedGuillermo Cabrera Infante: Infante’s Inferno, Three Trapped TigersRoberto Bolano: By Night In Chile, The Third Reich, Amulet, The Skating Rink Celebrate International Day of the Book (April 23) by dipping into some of these titles!

Kendra talks to Meena Kandasamy about her novel When I Hit You; Or the Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife, which is out now from Europa. Book Blind Date Sale: Get 15% off our hardback and paperback book blind dates! This episode is sponsored by Book of the Month. Get your first month for just $9.99 with code READINGWOMEN. This episode is also sponsored by Kobo Audiobooks. Learn more at kobo.com/READINGWOMEN. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books MentionedWhen I Hit You: Or, a Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy Meena Recommends Kamala Suraiyya Das Arundhati Roy Desires Become Demons translated by Meena Kandasamy Author: Twitter | Website | Buy the Book CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com.  SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“When I hit you, Lenin cries”, is what our author’s revolutionary husband tells her after every unnerving beating over the course of their short four month love marriage. Seduced by poetry and politics our young narrator falls for a university professor and accepts his hand in marriage, she moves for him to a new home where she doesn’t speak the language. It starts slowly of course, answering phone calls on her behalf, asking for her Facebook password but escalates into extreme physical and sexual abuse. This is not an easy book, our protagonist experiences and survives extreme violence and social isolation at her husband’s hands. There are moments where the brutalities are too much so prepare yourself. That being said, this is many women’s reality and ignoring it doesn’t make it go away, #domesticviolence takes the life of millions of people, world wide. In fact, two women are killed in the UK every week by a former or current partner.

“When I hit you, Lenin cries”, is what our author’s revolutionary husband tells her after every unnerving beating over the course of their short four month love marriage. Seduced by poetry and politics our young narrator falls for a university professor and accepts his hand in marriage, she moves for him to a new home where she doesn’t speak the language. It starts slowly of course, answering phone calls on her behalf, asking for her Facebook password but escalates into extreme physical and sexual abuse. This is not an easy book, our protagonist experiences and survives extreme violence and social isolation at her husband’s hands. There are moments where the brutalities are too much so prepare yourself. That being said, this is many women’s reality and ignoring it doesn’t make it go away, #domesticviolence takes the life of millions of people, world wide. In fact, two women are killed in the UK every week by a former or current partner.

Ben Lerner and Meena Kandasamy talk about drawing on their most embarrassing and vulnerable moments to write fiction. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/bookspod

Anna and Amanda discuss the 2019 Goldsmiths Prize shortlist.  Breaking news: the winner has been announced - Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann. Yay! Our book of the week is When I Hit You, Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife, by Meena Kandasamy. A raw, unflinching look at domestic violence but also poetic and at times funny, it has been described as 'explosive', 'searing', 'scorching' and 'shattering'.  It is a cracker of a novel.  It was shortlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction and was named in the 2017 Best Books by the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Observer and Financial Times. Next week, Anna and Annie will be reading Glory and its Litany of Horrors by Fernanda Torres, translated by Eric M. B. Becker. Follow us! Facebook: Books On The Go Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @abailliekaras and @amandalhayes99 Twitter: @abailliekaras Litsy: @abailliekaras

Anna and Annie are thrilled to be chatting with Heather Rose about her new novel Bruny. Heather is best known for her novel The Museum of Modern Love, winner of multiple awards including the 2017 Stella Prize. Bruny is a political satire set in Tasmania, with Astrid (Ace) facing a conflict over a bridge to Bruny Island.  It touches on family, climate change and the influence of China.  We loved this mix of satire, dystopia and spy thriller. Heather recommends City of Trees by Sophie Cunningham and There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett, which she calls a 'salted caramel book' (our new favourite book descriptor). Heather's podcast recommendations are Oprah's Super Soul Conversations, Under the Skin with Russell Brand and Our Cinematic Universe. Next week, Anna and Amanda will be reading When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy.  Follow us! Facebook: Books On The Go Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @abailliekaras , @mr_annie , @whatawritersees Twitter: @abailliekaras , @mister_annie , @rose_HMD Litsy: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz  

My guest this week is the Senior Editor at Atlantic Books, James Roxburgh. We're discussing book fairs, the different types of reading and the perceived death of literary fiction, as well as James' amazing list of literary fiction from around the globe including books like:When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy (shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize), House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma (Winner of the Edward Stanford Prize for Fiction with a Sense of Place, Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Orwell Prize, and longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize), and My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Women's Prize for Fiction). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Zeba Talkhani’s memoir My Past is a Foreign Country: A Muslim Feminist Finds Herself was published at the end of June and received blurbs by writers such as Meena Kandasamy and Ironesen Okojie. One of her previous essays, “The Difficulty in Being Good”, was part of the anthology Nasty Women. A Collection of Essays + Accounts On What It Is To Be A Woman In The 21st Century. In 2016 Zeba hosted Muslim Women Speak in London, “a micro-festival of interactive sessions curated, chaired and presented exclusively by Muslim women.” She has earned a degree in publishing and currently works as a production editor at Bloomsbury Academic.In this episode, we talk about the joys and pitfalls of writing about one’s own life, the slippery notions of truth and memory, unattainable beauty standards, the publishing industry, and feminism.

This week Rajyasree Sen and Abhinandan Sekhri review Sridevi and Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer MOM and Spider-Man: Homecoming. Sen and Sekhri also discuss Amazon Prime's first Indian web series, Inside Edge starring Vivek Oberoi and Richa Chadha; Meena Kandasamy's book When I Hit You, a book written by an anonymous author for Bloomsbury, The Incest Diary and the storm it has created before its release, a music video from The Hamilton Mixtape, Immigrants(We Get The Job Done). All this and more discussed and dissected in this episode of the Awful and Awesome Entertainment Wrap. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We were joined by poet, fiction writer, translator and activist Meena Kandasamy to discuss her acclaimed second novel When I Hit You.

In this Book Club episode, Alice and Bethany discuss When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy, and then go off-piste to chat about book prizes and celebrity-endorsed book clubs...

Arundhati Roy, Meena Kandasamy and Preti Taneja share thoughts about translation. Plus Anne McElvoy will be joined by Professor Nichola McLelland and Vicky Gough of the British Councl to examine why, in UK schools and universities, the number of students learning a second language is collapsing - whilst the number of languages spoken in Britain is rising and translated fiction is becoming more available and popular. The Booker prize winner Arundhati Roy is giving the W G Sebald lecture at the British Library about translation. You can find a 45' conversation with her about her latest novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness on the Free Thinking website. Meena Kandasamy translates from Tamil and her first poetry collection Touch was translated into 5 languages. Her latest novel When I Hit You looks at domestic abuse. It is on the shortlist for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction and you can find a collection of interviews with the 6 shortlisted writers at bbc.co.uk/Freethinking Preti Taneja is a New Generation Thinker whose first novel We That Are Young is a setting of King Lear in Delhi. It's been shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction. She is taking part in the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival at the British Library on Saturday June 9th. Producer: Zahid Warley

In the final part of This Writing Life podcast's conversation with Meena Kandasamy, she discusses India as a modern superpower, the place of violence in the lives of women, the poor and everyday society, shifts smartly to talk about her first (and possibly only) venture into acting, before turning to the future. We end by wondering whether the appaling events depicted in her debut novel, The Gipsy Goddess, could ever happen again.

In the third part of This Writing Life podcast's chat with the Indian poet, novelist and activist Meena Kandasamy, we begin with some chatter about the title of her debut novel, The Gipsy Goddess, before exploring her fraught relationship with social media - its pros and cons for political engagement, literary creativity, feminism and all-round mental health. Part four to follow.

In the second part of This Writing Life podcast's interview with Meena Kandasamy, we discuss how fiction mixes with historical truth, women in The Gipsy Goddess, language to shock and illuminate. And more on Nicki Minaj of course. Part three to follow.

In this new mini-podlet, Meena Kandasamy reads from chapter 4 of her first novel, The Gipsy Goddess. For those of a nervous disposition, the passage does contain a little strong language, and a reference to Nicki Minaj. But surely those are good things?

WELLS OF LONELINESS Indian poet, novelist, activist and author of The Gypsy Goddess Meena Kandasamy has won many plaudits for her writing. She's here today with When I Hit You, a provocative examination of an abusive marriage. Joining her is Saltire First Book Award-winner Helen McClory, whose Flesh of the Peach describes an artist’s American road trip after her mother’s death. Explore the wilder shores of love and loss with these two rising stars of fiction. Chaired by Lee Randall.

Sally Warhaft, Shashi Tharoor and Meena Kandasamy — Photo: Sophie Quick In 2014, Narendra Modi swept into power as Prime Minister of India; he did so on a pro-business, pro-development platform and on a wave of Hindu nationalism. It was a spectacular victory and, if the decisive recent state election results for his party in Uttar Pradesh are any indication, he remains a popular figure with many Indians – around 80% of whom are Hindus – several years into his leadership. But India is a country with significant populations of religious minorities. Among other religious groups, especially Muslims, and among some concerned Hindu Indians too, there is deep concern about the rising tide of Hindu nationalism in the population. Of particular concern are Modi's alignment with the extremist nationalist groups, his history of turning a blind-eye to acts of right-wing violence and vigilantism and the growing culture of media censorship. Join authors Shashi Tharoor and Meena Kandasamy as they talk politics and religion in the world's largest democracy, with host Sally Warhaft. Presented in partnership with Melbourne Writers Festival. Photo: Sophie Quick See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Indian poet, novelist, activist and author of The Gypsy Goddess Meena Kandasamy has won many plaudits for her writing. In this event, recorded live at the 2017 Edinburgh International Book Festival, she discusses When I Hit You, a provocative examination of an abusive marriage. Joining her is Saltire First Book Award-winner Helen McClory, whose Flesh of the Peach describes an artist’s American road trip after her mother’s death. Explore the wilder shores of love and loss with these two rising stars of fiction. Chaired by Lee Randall.

This Writing Life podcast extracts an interview from its vaults. Back when we had the energy to attempt an actual introduction, even when we mispronounce the author's name, we talked to the extraordinary Meena Kandasamy about her extraordinary debut novel, The Gypsy Goddess. Part 2 to follow.

This week Rajyasree Sen and Abhinandan Sekhri review Sridevi and Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer MOM and Spider-Man: Homecoming. Sen and Sekhri also discuss Amazon Prime's first Indian web series, Inside Edge starring Vivek Oberoi and Richa Chadha; Meena Kandasamy's book When I Hit You, a book written by an anonymous author for Bloomsbury, The Incest Diary and the storm it has created before its release, a music video from The Hamilton Mixtape, Immigrants(We Get The Job Done). All this and more discussed and dissected in this episode of the Awful and Awesome Entertainment Wrap. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Chair Carles Torner (International PEN) leads the second panel of the day, entitled' 'Translation as Activism', with Dai Fan, Sunmi Hwang, Hamid Ismailov and Meena Kandasamy.