The morphing of the world into a sprawling global village and free passage of people across terrains are changing the tenor of contemporary literature.
New groups of non-majority cultures are acquiring a voice to express their artistic visions in innovative literary formats while the contours of identities are sharpening to narrate stories about lost sub-cultures, the regional winners of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize said at a literary session on ‘Multi-Cultural Identities: Artistic Expression’ in the capital Wednesday.
The 12 regional winners of the Commonwealth Writers’s Prize and the panel of judges are in the capital for the final round of the Commonwealth Writers’ Award April 12. The prize will be given away by Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor, the winner of the Commonwealth writers’ prize in 1991.
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