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Anita Nair on Orange long-list

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Bangalore: Bangalore-based novelist Anita Nair’s book Mistress has been included in the long list for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, one of Britain’s prestigious literary awards.

Mistress is her third novel which sketches a Kathakali dancer’s engagement with the art even as it looks at the web of human relationships that surround him. “I am surprised because I did not expect it,” Ms. Nair told The Hindu.

“But I am delighted because it is a complex novel about a complex form. It validates all the hard work.”

Ms. Nair is the author of several books including The Better Man, Ladies Coupe and The Puffin Book of World Myths and Legends. She is the editor of a book of writings on Kerala, Where the Rain is Born: Writings About Kerala.

Born in Kerala, Ms. Nair moved to Bangalore to work as the creative director of an advertising agency. This was when she wrote her first book, a collection of short stories called Satyr of the Subway. She is now a fulltime writer.

The winner of the award will receive a cheque for £30,000 and a limited edition bronze known as a “Bessie,” created and donated by the artist Grizel Niven.

The name of the winner will be announced at the awards ceremony to be held in The Ballroom at the Royal Festival Hall in June.

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