WINSON COMPETITIVE GUIDE
Novel on Apatani tribe of Arunachal Pradesh wins
MM Bennetts Award:
Novel based on Apatani tribe of Arunachal Pradesh
titled Into the Hidden Valley has won 2016 MM
Bennetts Award for Historical Fiction in the United
Kingdom. The novel is authored by Stuart Blackburn.
He was presented with this award at the HNS
Conference in Oxford. Novel: Into the Hidden Valley
The novel looks into a little-known episode in the
colonial history of British India. It brings alive the
world of the Apatanis and portrays the impact of
British colonialism. It dramatises the encounter by
telling two stories, one of a British official and the
other of a tribesman.
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