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Ingrid Persaud, Short Fiction, Patricia Grace

Mariella Frostrup talks to winner Ingrid Persaud about her Trinidadian-set Love After Love, her stunning debut novel after winning the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Short Story Award in 2018.

Mariella Frostrup talks to Ingrid Persaud about Love After Love, her stunning debut told from the multiple perspectives of an unconventional Indo-Trinidadian family. Having won the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Short Story Award in 2018, Persaud explains why she evoked her memories of Trinidad in her first foray in to novel-length fiction.

Continuing the theme, critic John Self picks some short fiction highlights, both classic and forthcoming, for those feeling paradoxically time-poor.

And Patricia Grace explains the conception of her colossal but compact Potiki, recently re-issued. Stella Duffy tells this figurehead of Maori New Zealand writing.

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28 minutes

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  • Sun 19 Apr 2020 16:00
  • Thu 23 Apr 2020 15:30

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