Lawyer and author Shankari Chandran tells of winning this year’s Miles Franklin award for a novel she was convinced wouldn’t get published.
Each week, Benjamin Law asks public figures to discuss the subjects we’re told to keep private by getting them to roll a die. The numbers they land on are the topics they’re given. This week, he talks to Shankari Chandran. The 49-year-old is the author of novels Song of the Sun God and The Barrier. Her latest, Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, won this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award.
In July, you won the Miles Franklin, which comes with a $60,000 cash prize. What did you do with the cash? Feed the children, I suppose?On the advice of, like, seven cousins, I bought myself clothing other than trackies. Three dresses, including this one.Since your parents are doctors, am I right to assume that death wasn’t a taboo subject for you growing up?
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