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Vidya Madabushi

Vidya Madabushi is an Indian writer living and working on the traditional lands of the Darramuragal people. The Days Toppled Over is her Australian debut.

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Vidya Madabushi is a writer living and working on the traditional lands of the Darramuragal people and pays her deepest respects to Elders past and present. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Sydney, and her first novel, Bystanders, was published in India in 2015. Bystanders was shortlisted for the Tibor Jones South Asia Prize, and a previous version was longlisted for the Australian Vogel Award. In 2018, Vidya received the Writing NSW Grant for Fiction for the creation of this novel. The Days Toppled Over is her Australian debut.

Vidya loves spending time with her family and her dog, reading international literature, taking caravan trips around Australia, listening to both classical and popular music, and cooking traditional Indian foods.

Vidya Madabushi

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