Madhuri Vijay is the author of The Far Field, which won India’s JCB Prize for Literature, and was nominated for numerous other honors, including the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and Best American Short Stories. Her second novel, The Festival, will be published in 2028.
At the Library, Vijay will work on a novel about a young Indian woman stranded in Paris in the late ‘60s, who falls in with a group of struggling South Asian artists and becomes an unlikely witness to their lives and the turbulent decade.