Honoured: Saras feels lucky and grateful to be in good company with talented writers.
PETALING JAYA: Malaysian writer Saras Manickam has been announced as the regional winner for Asia in the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
Her entry, My Mother Pattu, was picked over two other shortlisted stories – Miss Coelho, English Teacher by Indian author Kiran Doshi and Pengap by fellow Malaysian Lokman Hakim which was translated by Adriana Nordin Manan.
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