On tour: Meet the illustrator Priya Kuriyan
Priya Kuriyan is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Delhi. She recently contributed to Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean (A&U), a YA speculative-fiction anthology featuring writers and artists from Australia and India. She is attending the Reading Matters Conference in Melbourne in May.
What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book?
Find yourself travelling through fantastical future-worlds, alternate universes and amidst pixies, cyborgs and unicorns in this unique tapestry of feisty feminist stories woven together by an all female cast of writers and illustrators living in two different parts of the world.
What are you reading right now?
Three books: Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury), The Veiled Suite by Agha Shahid Ali (W W Norton) and Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto (Viking).
What are you planning to read next?
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace (Abacus) and The Flywheel by Erin Gough (Hardie Grant Egmont).
Which book do you always recommend?
Quiet by Susan Cain (Penguin) and A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (Walker Books).
What was the defining book of your childhood?
Malgudi Days by R K Narayanan (Penguin).
If you were a literary character you’d be …
Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird (Vintage).
What’s your favourite book adaptation (film, television or theatre)?
There are quite a few but in the past few years I really enjoyed Atonement based on the book by Ian McEwan and directed by Joe Wright and Jane Eyre directed by Cary Fukunaga.
What’s your favourite books website or blog?
Goodreads.
Hardback, paperback or digital?
Paperback.
Facebook or Twitter?
Facebook.
In 50 years’ time books will …
Still be around, but hopefully more sustainable ways of producing paper and books will have been discovered.
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