Katha Prize Stories Volume 3

Here are seventeen award-winning stories which set new standards for short story writing in India. Coming in the wake of two highly successful earlier volumes, Katha Prize Stories Volume 3 once again celebrates new and established writers - the pioneers and the path-breakers - who have looked with great sensitivity and perception at the moral and psychological paradoxes of our lives. Fifteen of these stories were written in ten regional languages and were initially selected for publication by discerning editors of journals and magazines during 1991-1993. These and the two written originally in English were nominated for the Katha Awards by people whose knowledge of their respective languages and literatures is well known.Translated sensitively into English for the first time by winners of the Katha Award for Translation, Katha Prize Stories Volume 3 makes for powerful and memorable reading.The Katha Prize Stories series has been called. ... a literary achievement. The Sunday Mail... a unique and special moment in Indian publishing history. The Economic Times