China Mieville in Bangalore at a TFA reading on 1st March

Toto Funds the Arts & The British Council

are thrilled to invite you

to award-winning fantasy-fiction writer China Mieville's readings from his books

China will also be in conversation with three young Bangalore writers Deepika Arwind, Joshua Muyiwa and Poorva Rajaram

Venue: British Library, Prestige Takt, 23 Kasturba Road Cross (Opp: Visvesvara Industrial & Technological Museum)

Date and time: Monday, 1 March 2010 at 6.30 p.m.

Coffee/tea and refreshments will be served from 6.00 p.m. onwards

China Mieville lives and works in London. His first novel King Rat was published in 1998. He twice won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, for Perdido Street Station and Iron Council, and twice won the British Fantasy Award, for Perdido Street Station and The Scar. In 2007 came Un Lun Dun, his first novel for younger readers. His collection of short fiction, Looking for Jake and Other Stories, has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as "powerful tales of paranoid complicity". His latest novel, The City and The City, is in the mould of detective fiction but evokes a larger significance.

Deepika Arwind has worked as a reporter for The Hindu and continues to freelance for it and other publications. She has won prizes at the Prakriti poetry festival contest and the Open-Space Harper Collins poetry contest, and her poems are due to appear in Prakriti and Harper-Collins anthologies. She received a special jury commendation at the TFA Awards 2009.

Poorva Rajaram is a student of literature now interning with TimeOut, Bangalore in a bid to discover if journalism is for her. She loves reading feminist subtext into most literature and is a pop culture addict.

Joshua Muyiwa is a dance writer at TimeOut , Bangalore. During office hours he writes poetry.