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Aparna Surendra
Aparna Surendra is a Sri Lankan writer based in London. She is the recipient of a 2022 London Writers Award for literary fiction. In 2020, she was shortlisted for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize. Aparna writes fiction alongside a career in technology and digital rights. 

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Mothers in the Hague

Prize Entry

September 2022

Aparna Surendra

Prize Entry

September 2022

The mothers check their belongings into lockers and pass through metal detectors. They learn the rules of the public gallery and the name of...

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Interview

July 2015

Interview with Sarah Manguso

Catherine Carberry

Interview

July 2015

There’s a certain barometer of a writer’s achievement that urban readers know well: did this book cause me to...

Interview

April 2012

Interview with Grant Gee

Evan Harris

Interview

April 2012

As the theatre is relit and the credits roll on Grant Gee’s latest film, Patience (After Sebald), an essay on...

feature

July 2014

Another month, another year, another crisis: eleven years in Beirut

Paul Cochrane

feature

July 2014

Rumours of impending conflict can wreak a particular type of havoc. This is not as physically manifest as the...

 

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