V. V. Ganeshananthan

Nov 6, 2024 | womensprize.com | V. V. Ganeshananthan |Isabella Hammad |Kate Grenville |Noreen Masud

Brotherless Nightby V. V. Ganeshananthan Find out more Brotherless Night by V. V. GaneshananthanIn Brotherless Night, we follow the journey of aspiring doctor Sashi as she is torn apart from her four brothers in the midst of a vicious civil war. Write some journal entries as one of Sashi’s brothers. What are his private thoughts about the civil war, about their family relationships, about the politics in Sri Lanka? What are his hopes and fears?

Oct 1, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | V. V. Ganeshananthan |Shuma Raha |Aparna Eswaran |Silpa Satheesh

The civil war in Sri Lanka, which began in 1983 and lasted for nearly three decades, killed hundreds of thousands of people, displaced millions, and convulsed the island nation for a generation.

Jun 18, 2024 | fivebooks.com | V. V. Ganeshananthan |Anne Enright |Kate Grenville |Isabella Hammad

What were you looking for when you were putting together the six-novel shortlist for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction? We weren’t looking for anything in particular, other than the Women’s Prize criteria: excellence, originality, and accessibility. All of those things can come in different forms. The longlist was very varied, so it was incredibly difficult to get down to a shortlist of six. Each of these books is a gem in its own particular way.

Jun 13, 2024 | womensprize.com | V. V. Ganeshananthan |Naomi Klein

The Women’s Prize for Fiction was won by American author, V. V. Ganeshananthan, for her deeply moving, powerful second novel, Brotherless Night, which depicts a family fractured by the Sri Lankan civil war. The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction was awarded to Canadian bestselling writer, global activist and film-maker, Naomi Klein, for Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World; her urgent, illuminating examination of our polarised society.

Apr 25, 2024 | readings.com.au | V. V. Ganeshananthan |Aube Rey Lescure

The shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024 has been announced! The Prize is awarded annually to the author of the best full-length novel of the year written in English and published in the UK. The winner receives £30,000, anonymously endowed, and the ‘Bessie’, a bronze statuette created by the artist Grizel Niven.