{"id":118748,"date":"2023-07-27T10:33:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T10:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=118748"},"modified":"2023-07-27T10:35:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T10:35:11","slug":"australian-tamil-author-whose-first-novel-wasnt-australian-enough-wins-miles-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/australian-tamil-author-whose-first-novel-wasnt-australian-enough-wins-miles-franklin\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Tamil author whose first novel wasn&#8217;t &#8216;Australian enough&#8217; wins Miles Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"article-headline\" class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h4 css-kowe6v\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Australian Tamil author whose first novel wasn&#8217;t &#8216;Australian enough&#8217; wins Miles Franklin<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"css-p941vy\">\n<div class=\"MuiBox-root css-1rt2arw\">\n<h3 class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-subtitle1 css-1l6oeto\" data-testid=\"article-description\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Shankari Chandran&#8217;s third novel, Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, has won the prestigious award.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/article\/shankari-chandran-could-not-believe-she-won-the-miles-franklin-book-prize\/qowess916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-118749 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sbs.com.au\/dims4\/default\/ed0ad34\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/4715x2652+0+245\/resize\/1280x720!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsbs-au-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fc6%2Fea%2F499e86fb4f669ab5c1d91c764cf0%2F20230725001824052939-original.jpg&amp;imwidth=1280\" alt=\"Australian Tamil author whose first novel wasn't 'Australian enough' wins Miles Franklin\" width=\"600\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Winner of the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award Shankari Chandran poses for a portrait with her novel Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens.\u00a0Source:\u00a0AAP\u00a0\/\u00a0Bianca De Marchi<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Source :\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/article\/shankari-chandran-could-not-believe-she-won-the-miles-franklin-book-prize\/qowess916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sbs<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-subtitle2 css-1lqews1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">KEY POINTS<\/span><\/h6>\n<ul class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 highlights css-1ra8xe3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-subtitle1 css-86slc6\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Shankari Chandran&#8217;s Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, has won the prestigious $60,000 Miles Franklin award.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-subtitle1 css-86slc6\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The novel, Chandran&#8217;s third, explores multicultural Australia and the Sri Lankan civil war.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-subtitle1 css-86slc6\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Chandran hopes to adapt Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens into a television series.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">When Shankari Chandran got the call to say she had won the Miles Franklin, judge Richard Neville had to repeat the message four times.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;My brain just couldn&#8217;t quite understand what he was saying to me,&#8221; she says.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Then she put the call on hold so she could scream a little.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Chandran&#8217;s third novel, Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, has won the prestigious $60,000 literary prize at a ceremony in Sydney.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"MuiBox-root css-exul89\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Veering between shock, disbelief and &#8216;tearful excitement&#8217;<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Since hearing the news, the 48-year-old lawyer and mother of four has been veering between shock, disbelief and &#8220;tearful excitement&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;It is extraordinary to be recognised amongst this list of Australian voices that I have admired and loved for such a long time,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Chandran didn&#8217;t believe Cinnamon Gardens would be published locally: publishers said her first novel Song of the Sun God was &#8220;not Australian enough&#8221; and it was released in 2017 with a Sri Lankan publisher.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Her second book only generated average sales and a third manuscript, for a political thriller, was initially rejected.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/article\/shankari-chandran-could-not-believe-she-won-the-miles-franklin-book-prize\/qowess916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-118749 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sbs.com.au\/33\/1c\/a359acc44a9981632cdfa4daf28b\/gettyimages-72783287.jpg?imwidth=1280\" alt=\"Australian Tamil author whose first novel wasn't 'Australian enough' wins Miles Franklin\" width=\"600\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MuiBox-root css-sxe9aa\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">The United Nations estimates around 100,000 people were killed during Sri Lanka&#8217;s 15-year civil war.\u00a0Source:\u00a0Getty\u00a0\/\u00a0John Moore<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;I thought, &#8216;well, it&#8217;s highly unlikely that I will be able to publish again in Australia but I would like to write this novel and make it as good as it can be&#8217;,&#8221; she says.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">If literary awards are any measure, Chandran&#8217;s multi-generational tale is very good indeed.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MuiBox-root css-exul89\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h3><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">A multicultural oasis in a nursing home<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">That&#8217;s interspersed with flashbacks to Sri Lanka during the civil war and a broader exploration of national mythologies that include only some people, leaving others on the outside.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Fiction has been vital for Tamil and Sinhalese people to examine the long-running conflict, according to Chandran, who is Tamil and grew up in Australia after her parents were forced to leave Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;It&#8217;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&#8217;re on,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Which leads to some truths about multiculturalism in Australia, the fault lines of which are traversed in Cinnamon Gardens.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Chandran believes multiculturalism is wonderful but she has long been troubled that attempts at honest dialogue about race, identity and racism are shut down.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">She would like to openly discuss these issues but fears the capacity to debate and disagree is being lost.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">When she has recovered from her win, Chandran&#8217;s next step is to work out how to devote more time to writing and she also hopes to adapt Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens for the screen.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; 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