‘There is nothing absolute in fiction’: Madhuri Vijay | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

‘There is nothing absolute in fiction’: Madhuri Vijay | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written by Surbhi Gupta |New Delhi |Updated: November 5, 2019 9:59:35 am

‘There is nothing absolute in fiction’: Madhuri Vijay

Writer Madhuri Vijay on winning the 2019 JCB Prize for Literature for her debut novel, The Far Field.

The Far Field is Madhuri Vijay’s debut novel. (Credit Manvi Rao)

Madhuri Vijay could not make it to Jaipur last weekend to attend the announcement of the second JCB Prize for Literature. The Hawaii-based writer, who was shortlisted for her debut novel, The Far Field (HarperCollins India, 2019), was nine-months pregnant and anticipating the birth of her child. But after she was announced as the winner, Vijay, who was still at home, took out some time to talk over the phone. “I am in utter shock and it feels so surreal. I am still at a point where I am amazed that the book was published at all. I still have a lot of catching up to do,” she says.