#  Writers Speak | Anuk Arudpragasam in conversation with Tara K. Menon 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 2, 2026** 

 06:00PM - 07:30PM EST 

 



 

### Speaker: Anuk Arudpragasam

### In Conversation with Tara K. Menon

#### About the Speakers

[Anuk Arudpragasam](https://www.anukarud.com/) 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](https://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/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*.

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