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Name
  
Padma Viswanathan

Role
  
Playwright


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Books
  
The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, The Toss of a Lemon

Education
  
University of Arizona, Johns Hopkins University

Nominations
  
Scotiabank Giller Prize

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Padma Viswanathan (born 1968 Nelson, British Columbia) is a Canadian playwright and fiction writer.

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Life

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She graduated from University of Alberta, and received an MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University in 2004 and an MFA from the University of Arizona in 2006.

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Her short stories have appeared in Subtropics, New Letters, PRISM international, Boston Review, and Malahat Review.

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She lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, with her husband, the poet/translator Geoffrey Brock, and their two children.

Awards

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Her story "Transitory Cities" won the 14th annual Boston Review Short-Story Contest in 2007, judged by George Saunders.

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Her novel The Ever After of Ashwin Rao was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Short Stories

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  • "Transitory Cities". Boston Review. 
  • "The Barber Lover". AGNI Online. 

    • Novels

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  • The Toss of a Lemon. Random House, Inc. 2008. ISBN 978-0-307-35632-1. , takes place in South India in the first half of the twentieth century.
  • The Ever After of Ashwin Rao. Random House, Inc. 2014. ISBN 978-0-307-35634-5. , explores the aftermath of the 1985 bombing of an Air India flight.

    • Plays

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  • "House of Sacred Cows," originally produced by Northern Light Theatre in Edmonton and later published in the volume Ethnicities: Plays from the New West (1999)
  • "By Air, By Water, By Wood", Frog and Nightgown Productions 2000, published South Asian Review, 2008

    • Radio plays

  • "Disco Does Not Suck", CBC Radio, 1999

    • Anthologies

  • Anne Nothof; Padma Viswanathan; Marty Chan; Jonathan Christenson (1999). Anne Nothof, ed. Ethnicities: Plays from the New West. NeWest Press. ISBN 978-1-896300-03-0. 

    • Review

    In the introduction to her stunning first novel, Padma Viswanathan describes her grandmother’s faltering attempts to recount their family history. “This time, she started farther back,” she writes of one occasion, “with a story I’d never heard: of her own grandmother, married as a child and widowed before she was out of her teens; of that grandmother’s son, childless and embittered; and her daughter, my grandmother’s mother, victimized by her marriage.” After trips to India, enormous amounts of research, and not a little invention, the result is The Toss of a Lemon.

    References

    Padma Viswanathan Wikipedia
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