Finalist for the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and for the Governor General’s Literary Award, Anosh Irani’s dark, powerful new work about a transgender sex worker in Bombay who is given an unexpected task.
Brisbane Writers Festival 2017
In Conversation
The Parcel
Anosh Irani
Anosh Irani’s latest novel, The Parcel, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. It was chosen as one of the Books of the Year by The Globe and Mail, National Post, CBC, and the Quill & Quire. His play, Bombay Black, won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, and his anthology, The Bombay Plays, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award.
Sarah Kanowski
Sarah Kanowski is a presenter with Books and Arts on ABC RN. She has a Masters Degree in English from Oxford University, has edited Island magazine in Tasmania and also herded goats in Chile.