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Novelist Avni Doshi: Had to battle my inner censor
Novelist Avni Doshi: Had to battle my inner censor
Last Updated: Thu, Feb 11th, 2021, 13:39:02hrs
Speaking to IANSlife ahead of her JLF session, in which she is in conversation with Janice Pariat to examine the roots of this compelling and raw narrative and unravel its questions of identity, love and trauma, the Dubai-based writer delves deep into the making of her book.
Excerpts: Burnt Sugar , your Booker-nominated debut, was written over several years. How close was the final manuscript to the first thought in your head?
Doshi: The novel was written over seven years. I wrote many drafts of the book, and each one was very different than the one before. Sometimes, if I think back over every iteration of the story, I feel I have written seven different novels. At the beginning, the novel was centred around an ashram in an unnamed town. The narrator also was nameless a nameless, little girl. I was afraid, I think, of naming t
INDIA New England News
By Siddhi Jain
New Delhi– Indian-origin novelist and Booker Prize nominee Avni Doshi, who is a speaker at the upcoming Jaipur Literature Festival, says that she had to abandon many preconceived notions while writing the drafts of her debut novel ‘Burnt Sugar’ (published as ‘The Girl in White Cotton’ in India).
Speaking to IANSlife ahead of her JLF session, in which she is in conversation with Janice Pariat to examine the roots of this compelling and raw narrative and unravel its questions of identity, love and trauma, the Dubai-based writer delves deep into the making of her book.