![]() ![]() It’s a pity that they aren’t as widely read, enjoyed and celebrated as they deserve to be.Īlso read: How Dante’s Vita Nova inspired an art exhibition ![]() Over the last four decades, her books for adults and children have continuously pushed the boundaries of the real and the imagined. They inhabit a morally dubious, if exciting, universe, where conventional beliefs about life and art, gender and sexuality, right and wrong, turn topsy-turvy.īorn in 1941, UK-based Namjoshi embraces these contradictions in her writing with an elan that’s hard to rival. The best fabulists are masters of the art of fibbing. But it could equally mean a liar, a compulsive teller of tales. The word, deriving from the Latin fabula (“story”), refers to a storyteller. ![]() Few contemporary writers own the epithet of a “fabulist” with as much sass as 81-year-old Suniti Namjoshi. ![]()
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