Bengaluru :

Writer Rohini Mohan’s ‘The Seasons of Trouble’ has won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2015. “The shortlist this year was diverse and spectacular, but we unanimously agreed to award the prize to Rohini Mohan,” said judge Samhita Arni, who, along with authors Mohammed Hanif and Krys Lee, chose the winner.

The award will be presented in New Delhi on December 22. The Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize carries a cash award of `2 lakh and a trophy. It is funded by the Shakti Bhatt Foundation and Apeejay Trust. ‘The Seasons of Trouble’ focuses on the Sri Lankan conflict.

Arni said, “Mohan’s book is the stark, brutal, often unsparing portrait of three desperate lives, struggling to navigate the realities and brutalities of war and peacetime in Sri Lanka.”

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Bengaluru / by Express News Service / November 25th, 2015