: Publisher David Davidar on why young writers make him hopeful about Indian fiction in English #IndiaNEWS Publisher, author, and founder of Aleph Book Company David Davidar’s latest anthology is A

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Publisher David Davidar on why young writers make him hopeful about Indian fiction in English #IndiaNEWS
Publisher, author, and founder of Aleph Book Company David Davidar’s latest anthology is A Case of Indian Marvels: Dazzling Stories from the Country’s Finest New Writers – featuring 40 millennial and Generation Z writers. In an interview with Scroll.in, Davidar answered questions about the future of short fiction in India, a growing appetite for fiction in translation, writing and publishing trends that excite him, and how the current generation of writers makes him hopeful about a resurgence of fiction in the English language.How did A Case of Indian Marvels come into being? Apart from being age 40 and under, what were you looking for while compiling your list of forty authors? The idea to put together an anthology on these lines had been brewing for a while. A few years ago, I edited a selection of the best short fiction ever created by writers from India, entitled A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces, and that was received well. At the time the book was published, I wondered what the future held for the short story in India – that was the seed, so to say, from which this anthology germinated. I decided that I would use 2020 as a cut-off year to do a round-up of what the newest generations of writers...Read more

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