Dimapur, May 10 (MExN): The Simon & Schuster India on Tuesday announced the release of ‘Spirit Nights’ by Easterine Kire.
According to a press release from the Simon & Schuster India “the story of Spirit Nights is inspired by a story of darkness narrated by the Chang Naga tribe. Names and incidents are borrowed from the original tale, but it follows the path of fiction to achieve its telling.”
Easterine Kire is a poet, novelist, short-story writer and a writer of children’s books. Her first novel, A Naga Village Remembered, was also the first Naga novel to be published in English. Her other novels include Son of the Thundercloud (winner of the Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2018 and the Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award 2017), Bitter Wormwood (shortlisted for the Hindu Prize 2013) and When the River Sleeps (winner of the Hindu Prize 2015). In 2011, she was awarded the Governor’s Medal for Excellence in Naga literature.
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