LOUISIANA La. — The Deep South Festival of Writers makes its spring debut Friday with a reading from one of University of Louisiana’s distinguished professors.

The festival is sponsored by UL’s department of creative writing and offers the public an opportunity to hear and learn from contemporary literary minds.

On Friday, Subrata Dasgupta, director of UL’s Institute of Cognitive Science, will read from his new novel, “Three Times a Minority.” The novel is about an Indian woman struggling to balance her roles as wife, mother and research scientist in a male-dominated field.

Dasgupta is a “well-known genius,” said Jerry McGuire, director of Louisiana’s creative writing department.

It is the first work of fiction produced by Dasgupta, who spends his days studying the workings of the mind and the creative process. In writing the book, Dasgupta had a first-hand look into the artist’s perspective.

“When you do it yourself, you can’t stop to think about what you’re doing,” he said. “I just don’t know where it came from. I don’t mean it in a highfallutin’ sense. It just happens. You’re just creating something.”

Dasgupta recently completed, “Deconstructing Creativity,” a look into the mind of artist George Rodrigue and a memoir, “Salaam, Stanley Matthews: Remembrance of an English Boyhood.”

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Marsha Sills
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