The Reading Room: Across Genres | Shinie Antony, Gaea Schoeters and Bulbul Sharma with Rachna Singh

The Reading Room: Across Genres | Shinie Antony, Gaea Schoeters(V) and Bulbul Sharma in conversation with Rachna Singh | | Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Series Jaipur Literature Festival 2024
Supported by European Union
At a time when literary pursuits span different forms and formats of narrative possibility, and genres merge and intersect, two writers, with unique tones of voice and storytelling techniques, speak of their experiments with language and literary conventions. Belgian writer, screenwriter, librettist and journalist Gaea Schoeters’s latest novel Trofee, is the story of Hunter White, a wealthy American share trader, who goes to Africa to shoot a rhinoceros. Her debut work, a travel book titled Girls, Muslims and Motorcycles, was followed by three novels and the interview-collection Het Einde. Schoeter’s received special mention at the European Union Prize for Literature in 2022.
Indian writer, columnist and director of the Bengaluru Poetry Festival, Shinie Antony’s new novella, Can’t, features a storyteller in her seventies teaming up with a teenage poet to travel the world while the recently published Eden Abandoned: The Story of Lilith is an imaginary biography of Lilith, Adam’s first wife. Artist and writer Bulbul Sharma’s recent work, Sunbirds in the Morning is a delightful narrative which recounts her observations of birds and animals she encountered throughout the COVID19 pandemic days. In conversation with Rachna Singh, they talk about the variety and range of their writing, and discuss the literary forms they choose to tell their tales.
Shinie Antony is a writer, editor and columnist based in Bengaluru. Her novels include The Girl Who Couldn't Love, When Mira Went Forth and Multiplied and A Kingdom for his Love (Amar Chitra Katha). Her anthologies include Boo: 13 Stories That Will Send A Chill Down Your Spine, Why We Don’t Talk, An Unsuitable Woman. Co-founder of the Bangalore Literature Festival and director of the Bengaluru Poetry Festival, her story A Dog’s Death won the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Asia prize in 2002. Her novels Can't and Lilith are expected to be out this year, along with a collection of essays, exObjects: The Things We Save, co-edited with AT Boyle. Eden Abandoned: The Story of Lilith (Hachette) and Can’t (Speaking Tiger) are her latest novels. A collection of essays, exObjects: The Things We Save, co-edited with AT Boyle, will soon be out.
Gaea Schoeters is Belgian author who writes in diverse genres, rom novels, children’s books and screenplays to music - on theatre and opera. Her most recent novel, Trofee, was widely translated and shortlisted for various prizes. She is a keen motor-biker, who translates Kae Tempest and curates the Dead Ladies Show that celebrates ground-breaking women of the past. Additionally, she writes columns and essays for various newspapers and literary magazines.
Bulbul Sharma is a painter and writer based in New Delhi. She has published 21 books which include My Sainted Aunts, The Perfect Woman, Anger of Aubergines, Banana Flower Dreams, ShayaTales, and Devi, Eating Women; Telling Tales, Now that I am Fifty, Tailor of Giripul, and Grey Hornbills at Dusk. Her books have been translated into Italian, French, German, Chinese, Spanish, and Finnish. Her books for children are Fabled Book of Gods and Demons and The Children’s Ramayana, Walking through the Hills. Secret Tales from the Himalayas, Fantastic Creatures from Indian Mythology, Dancing with Birds, and Between Heaven and Earth are her co-edited works with Ruskin Bond.
Rachna Singh is a writer and the Founding Editor of The Wise Owl, a literary & Art online Magazine. She has authored 5 books on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from a collection of musings to bitcoin. Her latest book Phoenix in Flames is a collection of stories about the fortitude and struggle for survival of 8 women protagonists from different walks of life.
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