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Australian Tamil author whose first novel wasn’t ‘Australian enough’ wins Miles Franklin Shankari Chandran’s third novel, Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, has won the prestigious award. Winner of the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award Shankari Chandran poses for a portrait with her novel Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. Source: AAP / Bianca De Marchi Source : sbs KEY POINTS Shankari Chandran’s Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, has won the prestigious $60,000 Miles Franklin award. The novel, Chandran’s third, explores multicultural Australia and the Sri Lankan civil war. Chandran hopes to adapt Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens into a television series. When Shankari Chandran got the call to say she had won the Miles Franklin, judge Richard Neville had to repeat the message four times. “My brain just couldn’t quite understand what he was saying to me,” she says. Then she put the call on hold so she could scream a little. Chandran’s third novel, Chai ...

Bridgerton star Charithra Chandran cast as lead for ‘Song of the Sun God’ adaptation Source : tamilguardian British Tamil actress Charithra Chandran, star of Netflix’s show Bridgerton and Amazon Prime’s show Alex Rider, has been announced as being cast in the lead role of a six-part adaptation of Australian Tamil author Shankari Chandran’s novel ‘Song of the Sun God.’ Shankari Chandran’s novel follows the lives of three generations of a Tamil family, set in the UK, Australia and Sri Lanka. The miniseries will be a co-venture between the UK’s Synchronicity Films and Australian production company Photoplay Films. The author has also been signed on as creative consultant for the project. Charithra Chandran has been cast in the lead role of Leela, a young Australian Tamil woman living in London, who finds herself on a global journey to uncover buried familial truths. Chandran has previously mentioned in Teen Vogue that her ...