Writers Speak | Anuk Arudpragasam in conversation with Tara K. Menon
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Speaker: Anuk Arudpragasam
In Conversation with Tara K. Menon
About the Speakers
Anuk Arudpragasam is a Tamil novelist and translator from Colombo, Sri Lanka. His first novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage (2016), won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, while his second novel, A Passage North (2021), was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the George Orwell Prize. He received a doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University in 2019.
Tara K. Menon is Assistant Professor of English at Harvard University. Her first academic book, Speaking Parts: Character, Conversation, and Social Worlds in Nineteenth-Century British Novels, will be published in Fall 2026 by Princeton University Press. Her debut novel, Under Water, will be published in March 2026 by Riverhead (US) and Summit (UK). Rights have also sold in 31 other territories. Her reviews and essays have appeared in venues including the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Sewanee Review, Bookforum, and The Nation.