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International Booker longlist | Perumal Murugan: 'I'm writing the dialogue for a feature film based on Pyre'

After last year’s win, Hindi writer Geetanjali Shree’s Ret Samadhi (Tomb of Sand), the International Booker Prize 2023 has longlisted this week Perumal Murugan’s 2016 Tamil novel, Pookuzhi (Pyre), translated into English by Aniruddhan Vasudevan, a searing indictment of India’s caste system.

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International Booker longlist | Perumal Murugan: 'I'm writing the dialogue for a feature film based on Pyre'