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Open Book: Ingrid Persaud, Short Fiction, Patricia Grace

19/04/2020

Ingrid Persaud, Short Fiction, Patricia Grace

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Ingrid Persaud, Short Fiction, Patricia Grace

Mariella Frostrup talks to Ingrid Persaud about her debut novel, Love After Love.

Mariella Frostrup talks to winner Ingrid Persaud about her Trinidadian-set Love After Love, her stunning debut novel after winning the BBC National Short Story Award in 2018.

Mariella Frostrup talks to Ingrid Persaud about Love After Love,  her stunning debut told from the multiple perspectives of an unconventional Indo-Trinidadian family. Having won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2018, Persaud explains why she evoked her memories of Trinidad in her first foray in to novel-length fiction.

Continuing the theme, critic John Self picks some short fiction highlights, both classic and forthcoming, for those feeling paradoxically time-poor. 

And Patricia Grace explains the conception of her colossal but compact Potiki, recently re-issued. Stella Duffy tells this figurehead of Maori New Zealand writing.

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