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Bangalore author bags Crossword award

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Laurels: K.R. Usha’s novel ‘A Girl and A River’ was declared the best work in English fiction

Bangalore: Bangalore-based writer K.R. Usha is among the winners of the Vodafone Crossword Award for 2007, with her novel “A Girl and A River” declared the best work in English fiction.

The Penguin publication was described by the panel of judges, comprising writer Mukul Kesavan, writer-cartoonist Manjula Padmanabhan and journalist Kai Friese, as “an intricately plotted and beautifully-written novel that moves between an intensely imagined past and an uncertain present.”

The novel chronicles the lives of Kaveri and Setu in the 1930s, at the peak of the Freedom Movement, and that of Setu’s daughter 50 years hence.

Usha has been writing fiction for over two decades.

Her short story “Sepia Tones” won the Katha Award for short fiction. Her other published novels are “Sojourn” and “The Chosen”.

The other two awards also went to Penguin publications. While “The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857” by William Dalrymple won the best literary non-fiction award, the award for the best translation was shared by Arunava Sinha’s rendition of a Bengali novel “Chowringhee” by Shankar and “Govardhan’s Travels: A Novel” written by Anand and translated by Gita Krishankutty.

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