An extract from Rajasree Variyar’s debut novel, The Daughters of Madurai, published Orion Fiction in April 2023. Madurai, India, 1992 Almost two months before her conception She does not exist even in thought Janani knew, the minute the midwife placed her naked, squalling, soft-as-silk daughter in her arms, that she couldn’t lose this one. […]
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The Daughters of Madurai by Rajasree Variyar
The Daughters of Madurai is the debut novel by UEA alumna Rajasree Variyar and is published by Orion this week. Born in Bangalore and raised in Sydney, Australia, Rajasree now lives in London. She graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2020. She won second prize in the Shooter Literary Magazine short story […]
Rajasree Variyar shortlisted for Mo Siewcharran Prize
The Wanted Girl by current UEA Creative Writing student Rajasree Variyar has been shortlisted for the inaugural Mo Siewcharran Prize, a new annual award for an unpublished novel by a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic writer. Rajasree (pictured) graduated from the University of Sydney in 2009 and is currently completing her MA in Creative Writing […]
