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