![]() ![]() This time, he had a larger audience than when he performed at the Green Room many years earlier dozens of professors and students were on hand to welcome the first F&M alumnus to be featured in the EWF. The Washington Post calls it one of the best books of the year.ĭas, who currently lives in his hometown of Kolkata, India, returned to campus in April as a participant in the Emerging Writers Festival (EWF), an annual event organized by the Department of English and Philadelphia Alumni Writers House that showcases talented and promising writers. Das describes the book as cross-genre, most closely aligning with contemporary and mythic fantasy. The story became the opening chapter of his first novel, “The Devourers,” published last year by Del Rey Books. His piece won the College’s Jerome Irving Bank Memorial Short Story Prize, and he read it aloud at the Philadelphia Alumni Writers House. When he was a student at F&M, Das wrote a short story as part of that creative writing class. This spring, it has come full circle for Indrapramit (Indra) Das ’08. ![]() It started a decade ago in a fiction workshop taught by F&M Professor of English Nicholas Montemarano. ![]()
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