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    The Sarong-Man in the Old House, and an Incubus for a Rainy Night: Let’s Tell This Story Properly Short Story Singles
    The Sarong-Man in the Old House, and an Incubus for a Rainy Night: Let’s Tell This Story Properly Short Story Singles
    The Sarong-Man in the Old House, and an Incubus for a Rainy Night: Let’s Tell This Story Properly Short Story Singles
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    The Sarong-Man in the Old House, and an Incubus for a Rainy Night: Let’s Tell This Story Properly Short Story Singles

    By Michael Mendis

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    Honouring strong new voices from around the world, the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a global award, open to unpublished as well as published writers, with a truly international judging panel. This global anthology presents the winner of the 2014 Short Story Prize, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s “Let’s Tell This Story Properly,” alongside some of the most promising and original stories entered for the prize during the past three years by emerging writers across the literary landscape of the world. Gathered from over ten thousand entries, the selected stories are provocative, rich in flair and ambition, and push the boundaries of fiction into fresh territory.

    The Sarong-Man in the Old House, and an Incubus for a Rainy Night is by Sri Lanka’s Michael Mendis.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDundurn
    Release dateJul 25, 2015
    ISBN9781459733718
    The Sarong-Man in the Old House, and an Incubus for a Rainy Night: Let’s Tell This Story Properly Short Story Singles
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    Michael Mendis

    Michael Mendis is a law graduate living and working in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Winner of the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Asia Region), “The Sarong-Man in the Old House and an Incubus for a Rainy Night” was published on Granta online in May 2013.

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      The Sarong-Man in the Old House, and an Incubus for a Rainy Night - Michael Mendis

      Table of Contents

      The Commonwealth Short Story Prize

      Foreword by Romesh Gunesekera

      Editor's Note

      Michael Mendis (Sri Lanka): The Sarong-Man in the Old House, and an Incubus for a Rainy Night

      About The Authors

      The Commonwealth Short Story Prize

      The Short Story Prize was launched by Commonwealth Writers in 2012 as an award for the best piece of unpublished short fiction written in English from across the Commonwealth. It is one of the few international prizes open to published and unpublished writers alike and to stories translated into English.

      Commonwealth Writers is the cultural initiative of the Commonwealth Foundation, an international development organization based in London. It was set up to inspire and connect writers and storytellers across the world. We believe that well-told stories can help people make sense of events, engage with others, and take action to bring about change.

      This anthology comprises some of the strongest entries to the prize between 2012 and 2014, selected by the Chairs of the judging panels: author Bernardine Evaristo, broadcaster and journalist Razia Iqbal, and editor and critic Ellah Wakatama Allfrey.

      Each year the international judges

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