Shreya in well-received Auroville Literature Festival’s media coverage

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Image: At the Auroville Literature Festival in Puducherry, India, organised by Auroville and Government of India’s Ministry of Culture, plus other well-known Indian cultural and literary organisations, standing beside the festival banner featuring Shreya (1st column, 3rd row) alongside other celebrated/award-winning authors.

Here are two of the articles in the media in the run-up to the festival, in The Hindu, India’s most trusted newspaper https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/auroville-literature-festival-to-kick-start-with-a-diverse-line-up-of-indian-and-international-authors/article67196717.ece

And in the popular New Indian Express, which praises Shreya as a ‘strong author’ but unfortunately mangles her name https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2023/aug/21/auroville-literature-festival-2023-exploring-the-worlds-within-words-2607151.html

Her works in the spotlight at this festival were the bestselling ‘Handle With Care’ (HarperCollins, 2022), longlisted in a select list of eight for Times of India’s AutHer Awards’ Best Nonfiction Book 2023, and Welsh National Opera’s epic production ‘Migrations’ which Shreya co-wrote, listed by both The Times and The Guardian in their best shows of 2022.

Shreya’s column for newspapers in August is about the marvel that is diverse representation

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(Image: Holding forth at the inaugural Auroville Literature Festival, organised by Auroville and Government of India’s Ministry of Culture)

To read her column for August in The Asian Age and the Deccan Chronicle, please click here https://www.deccanchronicle.com/opinion/columnists/190823/shreya-sen-handley-south-asian-marvels-but-can-they-last.html

Inaugural Auroville Literature Festival has “some of the best international and Indian writers” participating, including Shreya Sen-Handley

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The inaugural Auroville Literature Festival, celebrating Indian freedom-fighter and philosopher Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birth anniversary, organised with the Government of India’s Ministry of Culture, has “some of the best international and Indian writers and poets” participating, including author and librettist Shreya Sen-Handley, who features on their festival poster, alongside Booker Prize winning and other accomplished company.

Her two sessions include conversations about her latest book, bestselling ‘Handle With Care’ (HarperCollins 2022), longlisted for Times of India’s AutHer Awards’ Best Nonfiction Book 2023, and the acclaimed opera she co-wrote for Welsh National National Opera, ‘Migrations’ (2022), listed by both The Times and The Guardian amongst their best shows of 2022, and a talk with award-winning Australian novelist Jennifer Down.

The Writing of ‘Migrations’: Shreya discusses the stories in Welsh National Opera’s epic production alongside her co-writers

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Writers/Librettists Shreya Sen Handley and Miles Chambers join director Sir David Pountney in discussing how Welsh National Opera’s vast production ‘Migrations’ took shape. From writing the six interweaving tales, to bringing these tales to the stage and telling a universal story through opera. Please click here for the full five-minute film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpJQmacH0Qk&t=86s

In the run-up to its premiere, They also spoke on BBC Radio and television about it, and to various other national and international media outlets

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Welsh National Opera’s ‘Migrations’, co-written by Shreya Sen-Handley, is in The Guardian’s 10 best concerts and operas of 2022

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An exceptional year for WNO’s artistic achievements…WNO musicians and chorus, the Renewal Choir Community Chorus, a Bollywood ensemble and a children’s chorus combined to create the teeming, heart-rending staging of Migrations: six stories by six excellent writers and one clever composer.

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Shreya’s first play ‘Quiet’ in London News

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The UK’s longest established Asian, black and ethnically diverse-led theatre company has a new season under its new artistic director. Tara Theatre plans to return to its activist roots, with politically- charged, innovative theatre on stage, in the form of ‘2020’, a collection of monologues about the challenges of the past year. The monologues are by writers including playwright Sonali Bhattacharyya and the first Indian woman to write an international opera, Shreya Sen-Handley. They explore a range of issues as far-ranging as Trump’s America to Liverpool FC winning their 19th top flight title, the PPE scandal for care workers, and the plight of an autistic son and mother learning about themselves in the quiet of the lockdown.

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Shreya’s play ‘Quiet’ premieres at award-winning Tara Theatre, London, sharing a stage with Hanif Kureishi

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“Tara Theatre is the UK’s longest established Asian, Black and ethnically diverse led theatre company…The new works come from writers Hassan Abdulrazzak, Shahid Iqbal Khan, BBC Words finalist Amina Atiq, Erinn Dhesi, Reginald Edmund, Carlo Kureishi, Hanif Kureishi, Asif Khan, Yuqun Fan, Abhishek Majumdar, Sumerah Srivastav, Sonali Bhattacharyya (Winner of Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award) and Shreya Sen-Handley (recently announced as the first Indian woman to pen an international opera).”

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Families love stunning show ‘Migrations’ too, co-written by Shreya Sen-Handley: Weston Super Mum reviews Welsh National Opera’s 2022 production

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“The highlight was definitely the Indian Doctors, written by Shreya Sen-Handley, for a few reasons: the dancing and the change in style of the music with the addition of the sitar, the dark humour in the story, and the fact that (despite the darkness) this was one of the few lighter, more hopeful scenes in the production with the small glimpse of redemption and hope offered by the end of the scene…”

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