Writer’sBlock
Two of Sheba Karim’s short stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her young adult novel, Skunk Girl, has been published recently and she is now working on a historical fiction novel set in 13th century Delhi.
QYour favourite reading spot?
My terrace on a pleasant afternoon.QBooks you are reading at present?
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon and War-Horse and Elephant in the Delhi Sultanate by Simon Digby.QYour favourite Indian writers?
Rohinton Mistry and Salman Rushdie.QYour favourite novelists?
Margaret Atwood, Edith Wharton and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.QYour favourite children’s books?
I have a lot, but these are my three favourite trilogies: Phillp Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Mary Stewart’s Merlin trilogy.QThe most over-rated book?
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne.QThe most under-rated book?
Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman.QClassics you want to read?
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.QYour favourite literary character?
Mr Rochester from the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.QThe book that changed your life?
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
