Paro Anand, No Guns at My Son's Funeral

Ritwika Roy (Jadavpur University)

Ed. by Dainy Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania, Grace Moore, University of Otago
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.1.03: Indian Writing and Culture: Post-colonial, 1947-present.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège)

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First circulation or publication Jan 2005

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India (Country of Origin)

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Children's Literature
- Young Adult

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No Guns at My Son’s Funeral

(2005) is the acclaimed Indian children’s author Paro Anand’s first Young Adult (YA) novel as well as her first on Kashmiri children. The work is sometimes said to have originated the category of YA fiction in India. In the years since

No Guns

was published, Anand has written

Weed

(2008),

Like Smoke

(2011),

The Other: Stories of Difference

(2018),

Wild Child and Other Stories

(2011),

Nomad’s Land

(2020), and

Unmasked: Stories from the Pandemic

(2021), among other works for Young Adults. She is also the author of the chapter book

A Quiet Girl

(2020) and the work for middle-graders,

I’m Not Butter Chicken

(2011), to name just a few of her works for children.

Wild Child

won her the Bal Sahitya Puruskar (one of India’s highest literary awards for…

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Citation: Roy, Ritwika. "No Guns at My Son's Funeral". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 January 2025 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=41199, accessed 18 January 2025.]

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