February 20th, 2009 / 6:35 pm
 Author News

Pasha Malla, we salute you

congratulations

Right now, my buddy Pasha Malla‘s gmail status say “BEST WEEK FRIGGIN’ EVER.” True enough.

Pasha’s first book, The Withdrawal Method, was for a time available up in a country called Canada from a publisher called Anansi. Any day now, said book will be available in a country called the United States of America from a publisher called Soft Skull.

He was longlisted for the Giller Prize.

It was also one of the Globe and Mail’s Top 100 Books of the year.

And now, Pasha’s book has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in the Best First Book, Canada and the Caribbean category.

Cheers, Pasha.

Follow this link to read some stuff Pasha has written.

Here’s a favorite humor piece that appeared on McSweeney’s: THE BOMBAY PALACE ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT BUFFET: A POST COLONIAL PERSPECTIVE.

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8 Comments

  1. February 20th, 2009 / 7:06 pm pr—

      Yeah Pasha! I like good news.

  2. February 21st, 2009 / 12:15 am jensen—

      Nice going, Pasha! What a week. This book was really good. I’ve long been an admirer of Pasha’s and it was super to get a chance to read this. Well-deserved praise, Pasha Malla.

  3. February 20th, 2009 / 8:15 pm jensen—

      Nice going, Pasha! What a week. This book was really good. I’ve long been an admirer of Pasha’s and it was super to get a chance to read this. Well-deserved praise, Pasha Malla.

  4. February 21st, 2009 / 2:24 am elizabeth ellen—

      matthew simmons, aside from you, pasha malla is my favorite person.

      i remember wondering when i first read this if pasha was a boy or a girl.
      (now i know!)

      http://www.eyeshot.net/pasha1.html

      p.s. pasha has really pretty eyes.

  5. February 20th, 2009 / 10:24 pm elizabeth ellen—

      matthew simmons, aside from you, pasha malla is my favorite person.

      i remember wondering when i first read this if pasha was a boy or a girl.
      (now i know!)

      http://www.eyeshot.net/pasha1.html

      p.s. pasha has really pretty eyes.

  6. February 21st, 2009 / 2:27 am elizabeth ellen—

      also, jensen, why weren’t you at awp?!

  7. February 20th, 2009 / 10:27 pm elizabeth ellen—

      also, jensen, why weren’t you at awp?!

  8. February 23rd, 2009 / 10:42 am A Very Special HTMLGiant Tribute « The Unofficial Pasha Malla Resource Center—

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