Fwd: Wonderful issue of AwaaZ

[Jeanne Hromnik]

With a special feature by me!

Do check awaazmagazine.com vol 19, issue 1, 2022.

Xxj

[Braz Menezes]

Hi Jeanne, enjoyed reading your article. Would love to red more of your writing. I’m trying to get a little book out on the Seychelles at the moment. More later.

Braz

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[Eugene Correia]

I second Braz in his praise of Jeanne's article. Smooth reading, nostalgic is more than one way. Jeanne weaves her story in a fashionable way, mixing Goa and Nairobi to deliver a "sorpotel" of a read. I too wish to read more from the facial pen or rapid fingers on a computer from Jeanne. I suggest that this story must be sent to The Goan for its Global Goenkar pages. The readers will definitely enjoy it, as I did.

Eugene Correia

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[Jeanne Hromnik]

Thanks, Braz! Did you like the articles on Abdulrazak Gurnah? Have you read any of his books -- mostly out of print before he won the Nobel prize. So much for good readership!

Fascinating that you are writing on the Seychelles. Pls keep us posted.

Jeanne

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[Jeanne Hromnik]

And please read Abdulrazak Gurnah, Eugene! I want everyone to read him.

When I'm over my VS Naipaul trip, I'm going to go for Gurnah in a big way.

I might try The world is what it is before then.

So much to read, so little capacity. And less and less energy for writing.

:-)

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[Sajan]

Dear Jeanne,

I enjoyed your 'special feature' very much; it's a very evocative and moving piece, and you write wonderfully well. It's not so much a 'feature' (which, I think, has a fairly specific meaning in journalism) as an interior monologue, with your sorpotel  -- like Proust's madeleine -- unlocking memories of the past. They should have put your story on the cover. 

The articles on Gurnah were surprisingly good. I'm not a great fan of academic writing, but some of those pieces have an almost lyrical quality. 

Thanks for your reminiscences, and the link to AwaaZ. 

warm regards,

Sajan

[Eugene Correia]

Dear Jeanne,

Heard of him earlier, but had no access to his works. I sent your article to my writer friend, who has won the Canadian Broadcasting Award, I think it was third prize for his book, Happiness and Other Stories, in which he has featured me as Father Eugene. He's working on his second novel. An Indian but Canadian-born, Ahmed Saidullah. He has written for the magazine which Vassanji's wife used to bring out. Sorry, I forgot the name of the mag, as it closed down a few years ago. I have read Vassanji's book, one which features a Goan character. Another Indian writer who has made a name and featured in Canadian writers prize-winners is Rohinton Mistry, a Parsi from Mumbai. There are a couple of other Indian-origin writers who have achieved reasonable fame in the Canadian literary world. Maybe, I will provide a list later on, as my memory fails me now. I have reshuffled my library because of some floor-work in the house, and right now it's a mess. I am also in the process of discarding many books and once had the misfortune of many books stolen by a so-called friend, who you be aware of on Goanet, if you were or are a member, when I gave him access to my books left at another friend's house when I moved to Dubai for a couple of years.

I had to go to court to secure the books, and the person needn't give me access to his house but left the books in the garage. Friends like these. Sorry for my lament, but sometimes when I think of it it hurts my heart and soul.

Eugene Correia

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[fredericknoronha2]

You mean Nurjehan Aziz and The Toronto South Asian Review? Amazing that
Vasanji was a nuclear scientist himself... And, in The Book of Secrets, he
featured the Goan retired school-teacher Pius Fernandes. (Some thought this
was too dismissive a role for the Goan community, going by what I recall
from Goanet debates.) 

As for the books lost, remember the old adage: "Only a fool loans a book,
and only a greater fool returns the same."

FN

[Jeanne Hromnik]

Now, Sajan, here is a good example of wrong headedness and misplaced humour: your suggestion that my piece be AwaaZ's cover piece. However, I treasure your words, and your message, which I admit I've read more than once, made me very happy.

My famed, feisty and frustrated father did make it to the cover of AzaaZ, thanks to the efforts of Benegal Pereira. Sadly, I can't find vol 10, issue 2, 2013 in AwaaZ's online archives but am attaching a pdf. file.

Thanks for taking an interest in AwaaZ. It's a wonderful magazine.

All best

Jeanne

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