Shreya’s year-end wrap-up column for newspapers in 2024 is a satirical look at alternative awards for the powerful

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“Awards more fitting, I promise you, than the outrageous annual payments they gift themselves (do I smell a Muskrat or is that $56bn in ill-gotten gains?), or the made-much-of awards that are handed out like party favours amongst the One Per Cent. These poor little rich prats might have cornered the world’s resources, but have they got what they truly deserve? NO, but I’m not that bitch Karma, sadly, so I can’t deliver just desserts.

Yet, ask yourself, what do you give someone who has EVERYTHING? Here are six prizes so perfect for avaricious fat cats and ruthless despots that they’ve never even considered them…”

Read it in full here

https://www.deccanchronicle.com/opinion/columnists/shreya-sen-handley-alternative-awards-for-the-year-end-warp-up-1848692?fbclid=IwY2xjawHWevRleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHa0c0AW4mTo7fZwkL65CVZre0LAFJKm9F24VOdyEIVAqgeUUhj-zBJet8A_aem_BugfeokIo_wL9URfHqo-iQ

Shreya’s fourth book to be published by world’s top publisher, Penguin

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Shreya is also the author of award-winning ‘Memoirs of My Body’ (HarperCollins, 2017), short story collection ‘Strange’ (HarperCollins, 2019), and travelogue ‘Handle With Care’ (HarperCollins, 2022).

Please watch this space for further details!

Image: by Olivia Rose Barns at 200-year old Bromley House Library, for Nottingham Trent University and Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature

“Shreya Sen Handley is…the first South Asian woman to have written a libretto for an international opera,” states top Indian newspapers

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The Welsh National Opera’s Migrations, a series of six stories exploring migration from different angles, is composed by Will Todd and opens on October 3, 2020. Shreya Sen-Handley (Memoirs of My Body, Strange) is one of the six writers, and the first South Asian woman to have written a libretto for an international opera. She focusses on the experiences of the first Indian doctors in Britain.

Other than Jeet Thayil and Amit Chaudhuri, not so many Indian/Asian writers of either sex have had an opportunity to write international opera. Continue reading →

“Shreya Sen Handley becomes first Indian woman to write international opera” says top newspapers Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle

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Indian writers writing operas for western productions — something that is not unheard of as there have been the likes of Amit Chaudhuri and Jeet Thayil who have done so. But now, most recently, author Shreya Sen-Handley became the first Indian and South Asian woman to write an opera for the Welsh National Opera…

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