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Name: Sri Lankan Tamil wins prestigious literary award
Uploaded: 2023-07-26T11:03:27.082Z
Duration: 2 min 8 s
Description: When she wrote her first manuscript, she was told her stories weren't Australian enough. Shankari Chandran is now a proud winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Her third novel ‘Chai Time at Cinammon Gardens' tackles colonisation and the hidden challenges of multiculturalism, in a confronting, but endearing story.

Sri Lankan Tamil wins prestigious literary award

Published 26 July 2023, 10:05 am

When she wrote her first manuscript, she was told her stories weren't Australian enough. Shankari Chandran is now a proud winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Her third novel ‘Chai Time at Cinammon Gardens' tackles colonisation and the hidden challenges of multiculturalism, in a confronting, but endearing story.

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