Night of the Third Crescent
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Dip into an unusual mix of unforgettable short fiction that is sure to enchant amuse and provoke. This book from the pocket plus series presents an eclectic collection of stories in reader friendly translations. Find short fiction from across india this collection in a sure way of knowing india through her stories.
“Unforgettable short fiction from some of India’s master storytellers.” — indiacub.com
Editor: Geeta Dharmarajan, Keerti Ramachandra
Authors: Asha Bage, Atulananda Goswami, Bibhas Sen, Dhoomketu, Geeta Dharmarajan, M. Mukundan, Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, Moti Nandy, Sundara Ramaswamy, Vishnu Nagar
Series: I Love Reading (ILR) Library, India Library, The Library of Teen Readings
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Asha Bage
Asha Bage is a Marathi novelist. She was awarded with the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2006 for her novel Bhoomi.
Atulananda Goswami
Atulananda Goswami is an Assamese short story writer and novelist. His works have been met with great acclaim over his lengthy literary career. He has also been involved in the translation of many English, Bengali and Oriya texts into Assamese, and of Assamese into English. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2006 for his short story collection Seneh Jarir Ganthi, the Ambikagiri Roy Choudhury Sahitya Bota in 1991, the Kumar Kishore Sowarani Bota in 1997, the Katha Award in 1992 and the Sneha Bharati Sahitya Samman in 1998.
Bibhas Sen
Bibhas Sen works as an advertising professional and has written stories which discuss the issues facing the world on account of globalization.
Dhoomketu
Gaurishankar Govardhanram Joshi, better known by his pen-name Dhoomketu, was a writer in the Gujarati language, considered as one of the pioneers of the Gujarati short story. He published twenty-four collections of short stories, thirty-two novels, plays and travelogues. He served the Sahitya Akademi, Delhi, for Gujarati in 1957.
Geeta Dharmarajan
Geeta Dharmarajan loves writing for children. She received the Padma Shri in 2012 for her work in literature and education. She was also the joint winner of the Business Standard Award for Social Entrepreneur of the Year in 2018.
Keerti Ramachandra
Keerti Ramachandra has an MA in English Literature from Karnataka University and an M.Phil in Linguistics from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has varied teaching experience from remedial English to spoken/conversational English, English as foreign language for non-Indians, graduate classes in Literature and Communication skills, and high school courses. Fluent in Marathi, Kannada and Hindi, she frequently translates from all three into English and has received the A K Ramanujan Award for Translation in 1995.
M Mukundan
M. Mukundan is a pioneer of modern Malayalam literature. While he was a young boy, Mukundan says, his happiest moments were when he sat in his grandma's lap, savouring stories. He has twenty six books, most of them novels and collections of short stories to his credit. He has also written scenarios for two feature films. He has won many awards including the Katha Award for Fiction.
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, the grand old man of Kannada literature, wrote under the pen-name Shrinivasa. He used prose, poetry and drama to express his world-view, but it is in the realm of the short story that he is the acknowledged master. Masti's mother-tongue was Tamil, he got a Master's degree in English but chose Kannada for his literary voice. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1969 and the Jnanpith Award for his contribution to Kannada literature in 1983.
Moti Nandi
Moti Nandy was a voracious reader, completing a book a day. He has written many novels and stories for teenagers about sports. A prolific writer in Bangla, his works have been widely translated.
Sundara Ramaswamy
One of the most versatile of contemporary Tamil writers, Sundara Ramaswamy, fondly called Suraa, brought about a new wave in Tamil literature. Despite the fact that he received no formal education, he was adept in Tamil, Malayalam, English and Sanskrit. His creative genius manifested it self through his work, cutting across genres – short stories, novels, poems, essays, criticism and translation. He wrote poetry under the pseudonym Pasuviah.
Vishnu Nagar
Vishnu Nagar has to his credit volumes of poetry, collections of short fiction, satirical writings and essays. He has been a journalist for much of his career and has also been involved in editing books.