“‘Carvalho writes with great sensitivity and feeling, with an economy of expression that underscores an amplitude of emotion. She’s a star among a new breed of NRI writers.’”
Sisterhood of Swans is Selma Carvalho’s debut short novel published by Speaking Tiger, India released in September, 2021.
Selma Carvalho is a British-Asian writer and the author of three non-fiction books documenting the Goan presence in colonial East Africa. She led the Oral Histories of British-Goans Project (2011-2014) funded by the UK Heritage Lottery Fund. Her short fiction, in English and in Portuguese translation, has been published in various journals and anthologies published by Comma Press and Kingston University Press, among others. Her work has been shortlisted for several literary prizes, notably the London Short Story Prize, the Dinesh Allirajah Prize and the New Asian Writing Prize. She is the winner of the Leicester Writes Prize 2018 and her collection of short stories was a finalist for the prestigious SI Leeds Literary Prize 2018. Sisterhood of Swans is her debut novel and was shortlisted for the Mslexia Novella Prize 2018 in the UK.
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