“The narrator being a poet allowed some amount of verse in the telling.” – Shinie Antony (Author, Can’t- A Novel)
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Team Kitaab is in conversation with Shinie Antony, author of Can’t- A novel (Published by Speaking Tiger, 2024)
Shinie Antony is a writer and editor based in Bengaluru. Her novels include The Girl Who Couldn’t Love, The Story of Lilith, When Mira Went Forth and Multiplied, and A Kingdom for His Love. Her short story collections are Barefoot and Pregnant and The Orphanage for Words, and she has also edited the anthologies Boo, Why We Don’t Talk, and An Unsuitable Woman.
Cofounder of the Bangalore Literature Festival and director of the Bengaluru Poetry Festival, her story A Dog’s Death won the Commonwealth Short Story Asia prize in 2002. Her columns appear in The Times of India, The New Indian Express, and CNBC.
