LONDON: Renowned Indian authors like R K Narayan, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth are among 100 writers who have featured on a list of the most inspiring novels chosen by a panel of experts and revealed by the BBC.
The list has been collated by a panel of writers, curators and critics to select the 100 English language ‘Novels That Shaped Our World’.
The panel comprising the Times Literary Supplement editor Stig Abell, founder and director of the Bradford Literature Festival Syima Aslam, novelists Juno Dawson and Kit de Waal, journalist and presenter Mariella Frostrup and author and academic Alexander McCall Smith, spent months debating before choosing from an array of contemporary reads, literary classics, graphic novels and children’s books.
The list, that ranges from classics to contemporary, is split into ten categories including identity, love, sex and romance, politics, power and protest, and class and society.
Roy’s debut novel ‘The God of Small Things’ features in the identity category, Narayan ‘Swami and Friends’ in the ‘Coming of Age’ section while Rushdie’s ‘The Moor’s Last Sigh’ is placed in the rule breakers class.
“R K Narayan’s novels are like a box of indian sweets: highly coloured container conceals a range of delectable treats,” said author Smith about the Indian writer’s books. (AGENCIES)
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