Suniti Namjoshi
'The sun is a lizard and the earth is an egg': A new book of fables by Suniti Namjoshi
An excerpt from 'Matriarchs, Cows and Epic Villains: New and Selected Fables and Poems', by Suniti Namjoshi.
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How did the slave Aesop write his timeless fables? A fabulist travels to the past to find out
In a new novel, Suniti Namjoshi writes of Sprite, who visits the sixth century Greek slave credited with literature's most enduring fables.
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· Jun 29, 2018 · 08:30 am
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