Especially when the following words, “For my mother, who didn’t let me forget” are pasted on the book’s dedication page. The book shoulders that weight from the start. The roots of history have been dug up and revealed to the reader through records, memoirs, and interviews. The story is in parts sketched out of the author’s faithful and passionate re-telling of his ancestry. The fabric of the book is non-fiction but the patterning that gives it a personality is a fictionalized acquaintance of 3 young men. Farthest Field, penned in bold and imaginative strokes, is a story of India’s role in the Second World War. The photographs of history tucked away between covers and in old and oxidized jewelry boxes. The measure of all things echoes in the stories that are left behind. Then a person quits the world completely.” It is now co-presented by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.“People have two deaths: the first at the end of their lives, when they go away, and the second at the end of the memory of their lives, when all who remember them are gone. The Windham-Campbell Prize was established in 2013 by writer Donald Windham to honour his late partner Sandy Campbell. 'This year’s Windham-Campbell Prize recipients in ﬁction are Danielle McLaughlin (Ireland) and David Chariandy (Canada) in nonﬁction the winners include Raghu Karnad (India) and Rebecca Solnit (United States) in poetry Ishion Hutchinson (Jamaica) and Kwame Dawes (Ghana/Jamaica/United States) are the winners and in drama the winners include, Young Jean Lee (United States) and Patricia Cornelius (Australia),' reads a statement on the prize's official website. Two winners were announced this year in each of the four categories for the prize, namely- fiction, non-fiction, drama and poetry. In terms of the award money, Windham-Campbell Prize is one of the richest literary awards worldwide. Each of the eight winners won $165,000 as prize money to support their writing.

The Indian author is one of the eight winners who have been chosen across four categories this year. Karnad won the prestigious award for his debut book ' The Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War' in the non-fiction category on early Thursday (IST) in a ceremony which was held in London. Journalist and writer Raghu Karnad became the second Indian to win the Windham-Campbell Prize after Jerry Pinto who won the prize in 2016 for his novel ' Em And the Big Hoom'.

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