Shankari Chandran has been veering between shock, disbelief and 'tearful excitement' since her third novel, Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, won the prestigious award.
Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, has won the prestigious $60,000 Miles Franklin award.Chandran hopes to adapt Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens into a television series.
"It is extraordinary to be recognised amongst this list of Australian voices that I have admired and loved for such a long time," she said. The novel is set in a fictitious nursing home in the suburbs of Sydney, a multicultural oasis called Cinnamon Gardens that is threatened from the outside by prejudice.
"It's a really important avenue for us because telling the truth in Sri Lanka is not allowed, it is not safe to tell the truth about what happened, regardless of which side you're on," she said.Which leads to some truths about multiculturalism in Australia, the fault lines of which are traversed in Cinnamon Gardens.
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