Jamaluddin Aram on leaving space for the reader to work

18/09/2024 44 min Temporada 8 Episodio 17
Jamaluddin Aram on leaving space for the reader to work

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Host Nathan Maharaj spoke with writer and filmmaker Jamaluddin Aram, winner of the 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary fiction for his novel Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday. It’s a tapestry of stories about different people—shopkeepers, tradespeople, doctors, children, and their parents—while in the background, often very deep in the background, a war is being fought. Novelist Jamaluddin Aram on leaving space for the reader to work