V.V. Ganeshananthan wins prestigious Carol Shields award

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V.V. Ganeshananthan has won the prestigious Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 2024 for her book ‘Brotherless Night’.

Of Sri Lankan descent, her book is set in the early years of the war in the country.

The jury citation read: "An ambitious and beautifully written novel, Brotherless Night explores how ordinary people can be swept up in political violence and, despite their best efforts, eventually be swallowed by it’….."

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