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      • Proverse Hong Kong

        Proverse Hong Kong is a Hong Kong-based press publishing local and international authors with local and international content, including:  English-language and translated literary novels, short story and poetry collections, detective stories, mysteries and thrillers, non-fiction (biography, memoirs, travel, china missionary, education and law-court history; source materials including annotated archival transcriptions) ; poetry anthologies; YA fiction; books for students; academic studies (mainly with a Hong Kong and Hong Kong China focus). Formats: paperback, hardback, POD, e-books, audio. Publication awards: from local and international cultural bodies. Events: Spring and Autumn Receptions in Hong Kong with prize announcements and awards, book launches, authors’ brief talks. Prizes: We offer two annual international prizes for writing previously unpublished in English: 1) the Proverse Prize  for book-length works of fiction, non-fiction, or poetry; 2) the Proverse Poetry Prize  for single poems (max 30 lines). Open to all, 18+ irrespective of residence, nationality or citizenship.  Annual entry periods: 7 May-30 June. More information: proversepublishing.com

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        香港大學出版社

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      • Water Boomerang (Nīrvaḷari)
        Fiction

        Water Boomerang (Nīrvaḷari)

        An Epic Novel on the Ancient Tamil Life and Culture

        by Konangi

        Nīrvaḷari is the fourth novel of Konangi. It comprises 21 chapters inspired by Konangi's spectacular vision of the infinitesimal moments of perennial ancestrality of the Tamils. The novel has resonances with Cilappatikaram, the great epic of Tamil language. Konangi has composed beautiful chapters on Islamic architecture, antique cities and their people, imaginary meetings between  Dostoevsky and Van Gogh and several other poetic Odysseys towards surreal landscapes. Neer Valari offers a hermetic and encyclopedic fusion of painting, music, sculpture, architecture, anthropology, literature and culture composed with the musical mythic - poetic prose of Konangi which has enthralled his readers for many decades offering them the surreal dimensions of Tamil Prose.

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      • Vessel Of Void (Pāḻi)
        Fiction

        Vessel Of Void (Pāḻi)

        Mystical and mythical explorations of the Primal Void

        by Konangi

        Pāḻi, the first novel of Konangi is an intricate textual Labyrinth incorporating several historical and cultural elements invaluable for the appreciation of Tamil culture and thought. Konangi discovered his unique mythopoetic style in this novel. Pāḻi, is made up of Seven books, each book is a world in itself narrating the flux of cosmic events based on  Nomadology, Buddhism, Jainism, ancient Indian sculptures, paintings, tribal culture etc., speculating on the forgotten and hidden aspects of Tamil culture revealing the antique vision of a poet. the novel is a  hermetic cosmogony inaugurating the celebrated Mytho-poetic style of Konangi, composed in a harmonious antique Tamil tapping on the intrinsic musicality of the language

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      • Whirling On The Saloon’s Chair (Salūṉ nāṟkāliyil suuḻaṉṟapaṭi)
        Fiction

        Whirling On The Saloon’s Chair (Salūṉ nāṟkāliyil suuḻaṉṟapaṭi)

        Seventy Tales of Wide Ranging Themes and Narrative techniques

        by Konangi

        This is a representative anthology of the First 70 stories penned by  Konangi spanning the first two decades of his literary career. This collection Comprises of stories depicting the livelihood of farmers, blacksmiths, washermen and other subaltern people and their trials and tribulations. It also throws light on unique stylistic and narratological experimentation performed by Konangi which anticipated and inaugurated his Avatar as a novelist. Several short stories are endowed with a rich sense of the agrarian life of Tamil Nadu followed by poetic references to the socio-cultural life of the Tamils. Translators can enjoy bounteous choices offered by this quintessential anthology covering a wide range of themes and treatment of stories followed by glimpses of the significant transition of Konangi's style from realism to magical realism.

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      • The Book Of Primordial Stories (Pitirā)
        Fiction

        The Book Of Primordial Stories (Pitirā)

        A Palimpsest Novel of Primordial Tales

        by Konangi

        Pitirā is Konangi's second novel. For chapters of the novel comprises five Tamil landscapes serving as foundations of several micro-narratives and tales portraying the various aspects of ancient Tamil Life. There are interesting descriptions of rituals and cults which enrich the cultural heritage of a race. The novel is brimming with very moving poetic accounts of the agrarian and the pastoral civilization. Konangi's angst-ridden melancholic prose explores the multifaceted and the rich indigenous cultural heritage of an ancient race on the planet Earth. As the title itself suggests, the novel is a compendium of various narratives of primal myths portrayed like paintings of bygone ages and their specters haunting the symphonic visions of Konangi.

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      • Tha
        Fiction

        Tha

        A Novel of Multi Dimensional Frames

        by Konangi

        Konangi's third novel Tha is a postcolonial tour de force. It is yet another hermetic book  of subterranean tales branching out in poetic delineation of the Invisible Historical moments incorporating various artists’ writers’ decisions actors freedom fighters rulers and anarchists of the bygone times. It is an epic novel woven around with Tamil alphabet  த, standing as a secret code resonating with Tanjore, Thanammal etc., It is also a meta-fiction teasing readers expecting their active participation in decoding the tales within the novel. Tha is made up of Konangi's subtle historiographic sense and celebrated Travels around India endowing him with a nostalgic and encyclopaedic vision followed by his encounter with various people, places, stories, events and records in the making of its Epic frame.

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