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Mallika
Naguran

Mallika Naguran has been concocting stories and crafting poems since she was a child. She Never Looks Quite Back is her first collection of short stories published by Penguin Random House SEA in December 2021. The stories depict themes of nature, war, migration, reconciliation, the pandemic, and love. It made the Singapore Literature Prize 2022 Shortlist. Mallika also enjoys retelling certain Asian and Western classics; she authored Ramayana: The Quest to Rescue Sita and Peter Pan in the POP! Lit for Kids series (WS Education, 2021). She is currently working on another volume of short stories, a poetry series on Tasmania, and two novels. Mallika Naguran is the founder of Gaia Discovery (gaiadiscovery.com), an online publication on sustainable living. She is passionate about all things wild and wonderful. For more information, see her website: https://linktr.ee/MallikaTheWriter Profile picture credit: Mark Thomson


Mallika Naguran has been concocting stories and crafting poems since she was a child. She Never Looks Quite Back is her first collection of short stories published by Penguin Random House SEA in December 2021. The stories depict themes of nature, war, migration, reconciliation, the pandemic, and love. It made the Singapore Literature Prize 2022 Shortlist. Mallika also enjoys retelling certain Asian and Western classics; she authored Ramayana: The Quest to Rescue Sita and Peter Pan in the POP! Lit for Kids series (WS Education, 2021). She is currently working on another volume of short stories, a poetry series on Tasmania, and two novels. Mallika Naguran is the founder of Gaia Discovery (gaiadiscovery.com), an online publication on sustainable living. She is passionate about all things wild and wonderful. For more information, see her website: https://linktr.ee/MallikaTheWriter Profile picture credit: Mark Thomson


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Once Upon an Arthur River

by Mallika Naguran
29 Jan 2023

He fell by the knife, they told me. They wouldn’t let me see. Too frightful, they said. Too bloody, mate. Blood has never stopped me from skinning rabbits, though. They come out just when the currawongs seek out those hills behind those giant...

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