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=Sources include=
[http://janicepariat.com/about/ Janice Pariat]
=Janice Pariat=
Janice Pariat is the author of Boats on Land: A Collection of Short Stories (Random House India, 2012). She was awarded the Yuva Puraskar (Young Writer Award) from the Sahitya Akademi (Indian National Academy of Letters) and the Crossword Book Award for fiction in 2013. She studied English Literature at St Stephen’s College, Delhi, and History of Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Her work—including art reviews, cultural features, book reviews, fiction and poetry—has featured in a wide selection of national magazines & newspapers. She writes a monthly literary column “Paperwallah” for The Hindu BL Ink. In 2014, she was the Charles Wallace Creative Writing Fellow at the University of Kent, Canterbury. Currently, she lives in Italy and India. Her first novel Seahorse was published by Vintage Books, Random House India in November 2014
=Awards=
Crossword Book Award 2013 for Fiction

Yuva Puraskar (Young Writer) Award 2013 from Sahitya Academy (Indian National Academy of Letters)

Shortlisted for Shakti Bhatt First Book Award 2013

Longlisted for Frank O’Connor Short Story Award 2013

Longlisted for Tata Literature Live! First Book Award 2013

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		+	= 2018 =
		+	[https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/leisure/story/20180129-author-janice-pariat-new-book-the-nine-chambered-heart-1149652-2018-01-19 Sukant Deepak , Janice in wonderland “ India Today” 29/1/2018]
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		+	Janice Pariat walks up fast to the first floor of the cafe-cum-bar in Delhi's Khan Market. It's evident from the sound of her boots. She is heaving. She is carrying many bags. She sits and orders her coffee. She likes it black. She does not stop smiling.
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		+	Fresh off the launch of her latest novel, The Nine Chambered Heart, the Sahitya Akademi Award winning author and poet says the idea for the book came to her on the streets of London. It was late evening. She was walking with someone who she thought she would have a long-term relationship with. "I wondered how would it be to look at the world through love," she says. Then she pauses.
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		+	In her book, characters remain unnamed, and so do the cities. There is a deliberate attempt to break away from geographical anchorage. What is offered is a glimpse into a young woman's life through those who have loved and lost her. And those she has loved and lost. Pariat says that it was important for her to write a "context-less book" because she does not see the world in neatly labelled boxes. "Compartmentalisation can be convenient. Limiting too."
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		+	As someone who comes from a mixed British, Portuguese and Khasi heritage, Pariat, originally from Meghalaya and now based in Delhi, is all too familiar with being categorised. Most often, she's called a "Northeastern writer".
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		+	"This really upsets me," she says. "Why does everyone, including a writer, have to be contained in her/ his geography, gender or sexual orientation?" Though she may be called poet too, Pariat thinks that's overstating the case. "I have friends who are poets. I might put down something that has the essence of verse. But the craft? Well, I do learn a lot from poetry, but take comfort and recourse in prose."
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		+	By now, the cafe is full. Waiters have got active. She says she should leave, that the many bags need to be filled. Janice Pariat descends the stairs. Soundlessly.

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 Her work has featured in a wide number of national magazines & newspapers including OPEN, Art India, Tehelka, Caravan: A Journal of Culture & Politics, Outlook & Outlook Traveller, Motherland, and Biblio: A Review of Books, among others
 =Her books=
 ==“Seahorse: A Novel”==

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 In the years that follow, Nem cocoons himself in South Delhi, writing for a chic cultural journal. When he is awarded a fellowship to London, a cryptic note plunges him into a search for the art historian—a search which turns into a reckoning with his past. Retelling the myth of Poseidon and his youthful male devotee Pelops, Seahorse transforms a simple coming-of-age story into an epic drama of loss, love, and healing.
-== Sanjay Sipahimalani/ ''India Today'' ==
+=== Sanjay Sipahimalani/ ''India Today'': Review ===
 ''' Mosaic of remembrance ''' [http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/janice-pariat-seahorse-boats-on-land/1/407663.html  ''India Today''] December 19, 2014

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 In the years that follow, Nem cocoons himself in South Delhi, writing for a chic cultural journal. When he is awarded a fellowship to London, a cryptic note plunges him into a search for the art historian—a search which turns into a reckoning with his past. Retelling the myth of Poseidon and his youthful male devotee Pelops, Seahorse transforms a simple coming-of-age story into an epic drama of loss, love, and healing.
 ==“Our Names”==
 A collection of poems inspired by the poet’s hometown Shillong, by the Khasi language and its special orality. By travel. To Wales, Lisbon, London. And finding a sort of home everywhere. The poems revel in a sense of place, and also placelessness. In seeking and losing, in love and depletion. They are miniature windows with which to look into the world with disconcertion – yet also, wonder. Written at desks and airplanes, on residencies and cellphones, while travelling and moving, while being still. They are offerings.

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	She writes a monthly literary column “Paperwallah” for The Hindu BL Ink. In 2014, she was the Charles Wallace Creative Writing Fellow at the University of Kent, Canterbury. Currently, she lives in Italy and India. Her first novel Seahorse was published by Vintage Books, Random House India in November 2014		She writes a monthly literary column “Paperwallah” for The Hindu BL Ink. In 2014, she was the Charles Wallace Creative Writing Fellow at the University of Kent, Canterbury. Currently, she lives in Italy and India. Her first novel Seahorse was published by Vintage Books, Random House India in November 2014
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		+	=Her books=
		+	==“Seahorse: A Novel”==
		+	Nem is a student of English literature at Delhi University. He drifts between classes, weed-hazy parties, and the amorous complexities of campus life, until a chance encounter with an art historian steers him into a world of pleasure and artistic discovery. Nem’s life is irrevocably transformed. One day, without warning, his mentor disappears.
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		+	In the years that follow, Nem cocoons himself in South Delhi, writing for a chic cultural journal. When he is awarded a fellowship to London, a cryptic note plunges him into a search for the art historian—a search which turns into a reckoning with his past. Retelling the myth of Poseidon and his youthful male devotee Pelops, Seahorse transforms a simple coming-of-age story into an epic drama of loss, love, and healing.
		+	==“Our Names”==
		+	A collection of poems inspired by the poet’s hometown Shillong, by the Khasi language and its special orality. By travel. To Wales, Lisbon, London. And finding a sort of home everywhere. The poems revel in a sense of place, and also placelessness. In seeking and losing, in love and depletion. They are miniature windows with which to look into the world with disconcertion – yet also, wonder. Written at desks and airplanes, on residencies and cellphones, while travelling and moving, while being still. They are offerings.
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		+	Forthcoming December 2014 with a preface by Robin Ngangom
		+	== Boats on Land==
		+	Boats on Land (Random House, India; 2012) won the Sahitya Akademi Young Writer Award 2013 and the Crossword Book Award for Fiction. Set in India’s northeast—around Shillong, Cherrapunjee and pockets of Assam—these tales are shaped against a larger historical canvas of the British Raj, the World Wars, conversions to Christianity. This is a world where the everyday is infused with the folkloric and supernatural. Here, a girl dreams of being a firebird. An artist watches souls turn into trees. A man shape-shifts into a tiger. Another is bewitched by water fairies. Political struggles and social unrest interweave with fireside tales and age-old superstitions.

	=Pariat's online works=		=Pariat's online works=

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 [http://www.caravanmagazine.in/fiction/hong-kong Read 'Hong Kong' here.]
 =Awards=
 Crossword Book Award 2013 for Fiction

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 =Janice Pariat=
 Studied English Literature at St Stephen’s College, Delhi, and History of Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
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 She writes a monthly literary column “Paperwallah” for The Hindu BL Ink. In 2014, she was the Charles Wallace Creative Writing Fellow at the University of Kent, Canterbury. Currently, she lives in Italy and India. Her first novel Seahorse was published by Vintage Books, Random House India in November 2014
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Shivam: /* Awards */

Pdewan: /* Pariat's online works */

Pdewan: /* Sanjay Sipahimalani/ India Today */

Pdewan: /* “Seahorse: A Novel” */

Pdewan: /* Awards */

Pdewan: /* Janice Pariat */

Pdewan: /* Pariat's online works */

Pdewan at 14:31, 21 December 2014

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