A. Sethumadhavan (Sethu), Kiran Nagarkar and Anuradha Roy, in conversation with Peter Florence

A. Sethumadhavan, known widely as Sethu, is an Indian novelist who writes in Malayalam, the main language of Kerala state, and is the author of more than 35 books, many of which have been translated into English and other languages. He has won the Sahitya Akademi prize in 2007, previously receiving the Sahitya Akademi in 1982 and 1978. Kiran Nagarkar is an Indian novelist, playwright, film and drama critic and screenwriter, working in English and Marathi, the principal language of Maharashtra state, and best-known for his epic 1997 novel Cuckold, for which he was awarded the 2001 Sahitya Akademi prize in English. Anuradha Roy is an award-winning Indian novelist, journalist and editor and winner of the Savitri Chandra Shobha Memorial Prize, awarded by the Indian History Congress 2015 for her book Cultural Communism in Bengal 1936-1952. These three key contemporary writers from India discuss their work and the place of literature in India today with Peter Florence, the director of the Hay Festivals.

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