Award-winning writer and veteran journalist Inderjit Badhwar has been chosen by the Prague Writers Festival (PWF) to represent India at its annual literary conclave to be held at the European city of Spires.
A Pulitzer nominee, Badhwar was awarded France's top "Prix Literaire" in the category of "Best Foreign Debut Novel of the Year" for his book "The Chamber of Perfumes".
"I am overwhelmed. I feel like a pygmy compared to these greats whom I grew up reading," he said.
During the festival, Badhwar will be reading excerpts from his book as well as articles and editorials he has penned in his journalistic career in India Today, and India Legal, the magazine he now edits in Delhi.
During the panel discussions he will be joined by Wesley Lowery, political editor of the Washington Post whose recent book on the racist slayings of African Americans by white police officers "They Can't Kill Us All", won him the Pulitzer Prize.
This year's theme is "The Fire Next Time", the title of American author James Baldwin's masterpiece -- a peep into the destruction that awaits mankind if we continue our destructive habits.
Previous invitees of Indian origin include Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy.
Other prominent thinkers and authors participating at the 2017 PWF include writers like Affinity Konar (US), Robert Menasse (Austria), Magdalena Platzova (Czech Republic), Mohammed Achari (Morocco), Kirill Medvedev (Russia), Joseph Kanon (USA), and Maria Golia (US) among others.
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