The Indian author likes to provoke, and Kandasamy's stories of caste and gender suppression seem like a logical reaction to injustice. On November 15, PEN Germany will award her the Hermann Kesten Prize.
Earlier this week, author and poet Meena Kandasamy won the Hermann Kesten Prize given by the PEN Centre in Germany's Darmstadt – awarded annually to those who stand up for the rights of persecuted authors and journalists. Her entire body of work is so critical for every modern thinking reader to engage with, that one must not lose any opportunity to talk about it.
The feminist Indian poet and author, who writes in English, will receive the Hermann Kesten prize of the German chapter of the PEN International writers’ association
The feminist Indian poet and author, who writes in English, will receive the Hermann Kesten prize of the German chapter of the PEN International writers’ association.
Honouring Condescending Scepticism
It s the wrong time for the Goethe Prize winner Adonis to be criticizing the protests in his homeland, writes Stefan Weidner, Adonis s German translator, in his commentary
The Syrian poet Adonis, born near the coastal town of Latakia in 1930, has received this year s Goethe Prize at a ceremony in Frankfurt, a German literary award of high prestige. The award ceremony went ahead in spite of protests in the Arab world over statements he s been making about the situation in his homeland. There s a flood of awards for Arab writers this year which can only be explained by the democratic awakening in the Arab world.