A House Without Cats’: Reviewing the Mozhi Prize Anthology’s Debut

Speedy Summary

• A House Without Cats and Other Stories is the inaugural Mozhi Prize anthology, featuring nine Tamil short stories translated into English.
• Mozhi, founded by suchitra Ramachandran and Priyamvada Ramkumar in 2022, focuses on Indian language literature in translation.
• the top prize-winning story, “A House Without Cats” by chandra (translated by Padmaja Anant), explores themes of memory, loss, and familial struggles through the outlook of a child.
• Runner-up tales include “filfilee” by Jeyamohan (translated by Amruth Varshan) and Cotton Fever by Senthil Jagannathan (translated by Anjana Shekar).
• Special mentions highlight works like Vannadasan’s “A Brief Strain of Music” and Jeyamohan’s humorous tale “Ammaiyappam.”
• Entries for Mozhi Prize’s 2025 edition are open until September. Submissions are limited to stories published post-1972.

!The Hindu