Jose Varghese

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Introduction Jose Varghese (1976 -) is a bilingual writer/translator from Kerala. He is the founder and chief editor of Lakeview Journal and Strands Publishers, and a contributing editor for Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel. Silver Painted Gandhi and Other Poems is his first book. A second poetry collection is scheduled for publication in 2021 by The Black Spring Press Group. He was a finalist in the 2020 London Independent Story Prize and the Beverly International Prize 2018 (for his short fiction manuscript In/Sane), a runner up in the Salt Flash Fiction Prize, and was commended in Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Prize. His works have appeared in Meridian, The Best Asian Short Story Anthology, Dreich, The Salt Anthology of New Writing, Unthology 5, Unveiled, Reflex Fiction, Chandrabhaga, Kavya Bharati, Postcolonial Text , Bengaluru Review, Retreat West, and Flash Fiction Magazine. Twitter: https://twitter.com/FlashStrands Websites: https://aswinjose.wixsite.com/josevarghese and https://strandspublishers.weebly.com/lit-sphere
Interests Reading, Creative Writing, Music, Education, ELT, Phonetics, Linguistics, Literary Theory, Post-Colonial Literatures, New Historicism, Feminism, Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Life Writing, Philosophy, Films, History, science, Politics, Languages, Culture, Counterculture, Popular Culture, Spanish, Games
Favorite Movies The Hunt, The Past, Amour, Rust and Bones, Sacrifice, Turtles Can Fly, Cache, Mulholland Dr., Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, Decalogue, Blue, White, Red, XXY, Last Summer at La Boyita, Antichrist, Portraits in a Sea of Lies, Kadosh, Alamar, Strokes and Silhouettes, Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, Volver, Bad Education, Zorba the Greek, Water, 1947 Earth, 15 Park Avenue, Benny's Video, Persona, Offside, The Circle, The Mirror, The Taste of Cherries, Bliss, Show Me Love, My Fair Lady, Lilja Lives Forever...
Favorite Music Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Adnan Sami, Asha Bhonsle, MLTR, Guns and Roses, Pink Floyd, Eminem, Bryan Adams, Elton John, Simply Red, The Beatles ...
Favorite Books Midnight's Children, Snow, Zorba The Greek, The Buddha of Suburbia, Something To Tell You, A Fine Balance, Family Matters, Such A Long Journey, Oryx and Crake, The Kite Runner, Atonement, On Chesil Beach, Saturday, Solar, The Outsider, The Cleft, The Partisan's Daughter, Notwithstanding, The Black Album, Gabriel's Gift, Disgrace, Age of Iron, Slow Man, Elizabeth Costello, The God of Small Things ...