INDIA

Classic Regional Language Fiction

click here to acquaint with the winners of India's highest literary
honor, Janpith, often awarded toward the end of a lifelong career.

Samskara : A Rite for a Dead Man (Kannada)
by U. R. Anantha Murthy, A. K. Ramnujan (Translator)

Selected Fiction, O.V. Vijayan (Malayalam)
by O.V. VIJAYAN

Maya Darpan and Other Stories
by Nirmal Verma (Hindi)

Seven Sixes Are Forty-Three(Saat Sakkam Trechalis)
by Kiran Nagarkar, Shubda Slee (Translator)

Water (Tamil)
by Ashokamitran, Lakshmi Holmstrom (Translator)

The legends of Khasak (Malayalam)
by O. V. Vijayan

Imaginary Maps : Three Stories
by Mahasweta Devi, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Translator),(Bengali)

Cast Me Out If You Will
by Lalithambika Antherjanam (Malayalam)

The Home and the World (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
by Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali)

Women Writing in India: TWO VOLUMES (from all the major
regional languages)
by K. Lalita (Editor), Susie J. Tharu (Editor)

Mirrorwork : 50 Years of Indian Writing : 1947-1997(several languages)
by Salman Rushdie (Editor), Elizabeth West (Editor)

It Does Not Die : A Romance (Bengali)
by Maitreyi Devi

Kayar (Malayalam)
by Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai