#LivefromLucy: 'Did that really happen? Research in literary production' with Padma Viswanathan

Wed 17 November 2021

Lucy Cavendish College

In this talk, Padma Viswanathan will be reading her fiction, nonfiction and translation, and discussing how she has used research and real-world events in her literary works.

About the Speaker

Padma Viswanathan is the author of two novels: The Toss of a Lemon (2008) published in eight countries and shortlisted for the Pen Center USA Fiction Prize among others, and The Ever After of Ashwin Rao (2014), also published internationally and a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her short fiction, personal essays, critical writing and short translations have been published in Granta, The Boston Review, BRICK, and elsewhere. Her translation of the novel São Bernardo, by the Brazilian novelist Graciliano Ramos, was published in May 2020 by the New York Review Books and shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Currently on fellowship at Lucy Cavendish College, Viswanathan usually lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where she teaches in the Programs in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas.

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Cost: Free