Fiction

The Return – Mahua Sen Mukhopadhyay

This is a story of the dying moments of an elderly woman in her own house, as her fondest memories materialize in front of her eyes and she cannot discern the line between reality and past recollections.

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The Man and The Tree – Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri

The Antonym instituted the Tagore Award for translated fiction from Bengali in 2021. Here is the story in translation that came seccond in the inaugural season of the Tagore Award for translated fiction -The Man and the Tree written by Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri and translated by Chirayata Chakraborty.

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Then, as I Kept Going – Shahaduz Zaman

The Antonym instituted the Tagore Award for translated fiction from Bengali in 2021. Here is the story in translation that came first in the inaugural season of the Tagore Award for translated fiction – Then as I Kept Going written by Shahaduz Zaman, translated by Noora Shamsi Bahar.

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The Most Beautiful Things Could End Us – Zach Murphy

Zach Murphy is a Hawaii-born writer with a background in cinema. His stories appear in Reed Magazine, The Coachella Review, Maudlin House, Still Point Arts Quarterly, B O D Y, Ruminate, Wilderness House Literary Review, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, and more.

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