Amulya became the first to win the English and Kannada writing awards
Amulya B won the writing awards in Kannada and English at the 17th annual Toto Funds the Arts (TFA) Awards held on February 7. She is the first to win both the awards.
The TFA non-profit trust was set up in 2004, in memory of Angirus ‘Toto’ Vellani, an art and literature lover who, at 20, died in an accident that year. It gives away prizes every year in several categories including music, literature, short film and photography.
Amulya won the writing prizes for her stories ‘What Do I Call You, Again?’ in English and ‘Aa boys club-u’ (That boys club) in Kannada. The former, a speculative fiction, is about a son visiting his mother, who is a robot. ‘Aa boys club-u’ is a magic-realism story that follows a journalist and a group of his colleagues who repeatedly come across a “strange woman”.
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