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Photograph by Graeme Jackson.<\/p><\/div>\n

We are thrilled to announce that Chetna Maroo has won the 2022 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, which will be presented at our <\/span>Spring Revel<\/span><\/a> in April. The prize, awarded annually since 1993 by the editorial committee of <\/span>The Paris Review<\/span><\/i>\u2019s<\/span> board of directors, celebrates an outstanding piece of fiction by an emerging writer published in the <\/span>Review <\/span><\/i>during the preceding year. Previous winners include Ottessa Moshfegh, Emma Cline, and Atticus Lish.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maroo\u2019s deft, affecting \u201c<\/span>Brothers and Sisters<\/span><\/a>\u201d appeared in our <\/span>Winter 2021<\/span><\/a> issue. \u201cAt first glance,\u201d as the <\/span>Review<\/span><\/i>\u2019s publisher, Mona Simpson, says, \u201cit looks like a traditional story, told traditionally, in stately English, but without the usual conventions of context. All of Maroo\u2019s innovations come by way of implication. A girl named Oma goes on a school trip while her family prepares five nights of wedding festivities for her twenty-two-year-old sister. On the train, a boy named Daniel, who spends Saturdays passing out religious literature by the station, points to a scene outside the window: a man skating awkwardly on a pond. Daniel and Oma begin to question their beliefs in the religions they\u2019ve inherited, while forming a delicate relationship.\u201d Maroo pays attention to the small torments, affinities, and shifts in mood that are rarely expressed out loud. As she writes in the opening scene, when Oma\u2019s older sister tells her younger siblings that their turn will come to grow up and get married, \u201csince it was impossible for the sisters to imagine themselves at twenty-two without a vague, unsettling sense of their own absence, they each turned away and occupied themselves with other thoughts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Maroo, <\/span>a British Indian writer born in Kenya, lives in London and worked until recently as an accountant. Her<\/span> stories have appeared in anthologies and literary magazines including the <\/span>Stinging Fly<\/span><\/i> and the <\/span>Cincinnati Review<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>h<\/span>er first novel, <\/span>Western Lane<\/span><\/i>, will be published in 2023 by Picador (UK), Farrar, Straus and Giroux (U.S.), and Knopf (Canada).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We very much look forward to toasting Chetna Maroo and Jamaica Kincaid, this year\u2019s recipient of the Hadada Award, at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York on April 12. This will be the first Revel since 2019, and <\/span>tickets are still available<\/span><\/a>\u2014won\u2019t you join us?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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