Prof Parashar Kulkarni becomes 1st Indian to win Commonwealth short story prize

June 06, 2016 13:37

A University professor Parashar Kulkarni has become the first Indian author to win the Commonwealth short story prize, beating almost 4,000 entries for the 5,000 pound award with the first short story he has ever written.

The Assistant Professor in Social Sciences at Yale NUS College in Singapore, was presented the Prize by Man Booker Prize Winner and former short story judge Marlon James at the Calabash Literary Festival in Jamaica on June 5.

The winning story, 'Cow and Company' is a narrative set in India in the 1990s about four men who go in search of a cow to feature in an advertisement for chewing gum.

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