A collection of “unhappy love stories”, 10 years in the making is in contention for New Zealand’s top fiction prize – though its author says she has already had her happy ever after. Bug Week & Other Stories, the debut short-story collection by writer and poet Airini Beautrais, is one of four works shortlisted in the fiction category at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Beautrais told the Guardian that she was pleased to have made the.
Sodden Downstream, is in the running again with his new novel,
Sprigs.
Bug Week & Other Stories. Fiction category convenor of judges Kiran Dass said the qualities the four shortlisted works had in common were “craft, nuance, urgent storytelling, rage against injustice, and new perspectives”.
Ross Giblin/Stuff Set in Nazi Germany,
Remote Sympathy explores the attractions and evils of obliviousness.
Nothing to See explores life in the era of surveillance capitalism and the increasingly thin line between reality and simulation.
Sprigs takes on violence, racism and toxic masculinity in the context of an all-boys’ school, while
Bug Week’s stories touch on subjects including male entitlement and death.
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Fahadh Faasil, Dileesh Pothan, And Team Wrap Up Joji
News
Fahadh
Faasil
and
Dileesh
Pothan,
the
highly
celebrated
actor-director
duo
finally
wrapped
up
their
next
outing,
Joji.
The
team
members
revealed
the
exciting
update,
by
sharing
a
group
picture
of
the
entire
team
on
social
media.
The
highly
anticipated
Fahadh
Faasil
starrer
is
an
official
adaptation
of
William
Shakespeare s
Macbeth.
As
reported
earlier,
nothing
much
has
been
revealed
about
Joji,
which
marks
Fahadh
Faasil s
third
collaboration
with
Dileesh
Pothan.
As
per
the
reports,
the
project
was
entirely
shot
at
Kottayam
district,
following
all
safety
guidelines
implemented
by
the
Kerala
government.