# Lockdown Literature from Mizoram

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2021/03/09/lockdown-literature-from-mizoram/
- Published: 2021-03-09T22:11:18+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Editor:** Margaret  L.  Pachuau[⌊A sample cover of the book: dark red coloured handloom sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Lockdown-Literature-from-Mizoram-scaled-1.jpeg)
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Pages:** 100 **Year of Publication:** 2020 **Price:** Rs 300 **ISBN:** 978-81-949985-
5-6 (9788194998556)

_**About the Editor**_
 Margaret L. Pachuau is Professor at the Department of English,
Mizoram University.  She completed her postgraduation as well as junior and senior
research from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has several published 
works to her credit, including Mizo fiction in translation in _The Heart of the 
Matter_ (2004), **_[Handpicked Tales from Mizoram](https://writersworkshopindia.com/books/handpicked-tales-from-mizoram/)_**(
2008) and **_[Folklore from Mizoram](https://writersworkshopindia.com/books/fiction/greenbird/stories/folklore-from-mizoram/)_**(
2013), both of which were published by **Writers Workshop**, India. She has also
written _The Experience of Expatriation_ (2006) and _Construction of Good and Evil
in Iris Murdoch’s Discourse_ (2007), and several articles in literary journals. 
A keen researcher and translator, she has compiled her findings in two major research
projects on identity and Mizo narratives. She won the first prize for fiction in
translation, in a competition organized by _Muse India_ in 2008, for “The Jackfruit
Tree”, a story in _**Handpicked Tales from Mizoram**_.

_**About the Book**_
 The book comprises poems, reflective pieces and stories by
22 writers from Mizoram writing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

_**Contents**_
 60 piece of poetry, fiction and nonfiction by 22 writers