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Nandini Sahu (born 1973), English-language poet, folklorist, academic; Indira Sant (1914–2000), Marathi poet; Krupabai Satthianadhan (1862–1894), early English-language Indian novelist; Mala Sen (1947–2011), writer and human rights activist, author of India's Bandit Queen; Mallika Sengupta (1960–2011), Bengali poet, novelist, feminist ...
Indian English literature (IEL), also referred to as Indian Writing in English (IWE), is the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language but whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India.
Anamika (born 17 August 1961) is a contemporary Indian poet, social worker and novelist [1] writing in Hindi, and a critic writing in English. My Typewriter Is My Piano is her collection of poems translated into English. [2] She is known for her feminist poetry. [2]
Advani and Roy founded Permanent Black, a publishing company focusing on academic literature, in 2000, and Roy is a designer for the company. [1] [15] Roy had previously worked with Stree, an Indian independent publisher in Kolkata. [16] She was a Commissioning Editor at Oxford University Press, India, a job she quit in 2000. [17]
She first learned to read and write in English at school at the age of seven. As a result, English became her "literary language". She published her first story at the age of nine. [7] She attended Queen Mary's Higher Secondary School in Delhi and received her B.A. in English literature in 1957 from the Miranda House at the University of Delhi.
Anita Nair (born 26 January 1966) is an Indian novelist who writes her books in English. She is best known for her novels A Better Man, Mistress, and Lessons in Forgetting. [1] She has also written poetry, essays, short stories, crime fiction, historical fiction, romance, and children's literature, including Muezza and Baby Jaan: Stories from ...
In 2009, The Times called her "the mother of modern English Indian poetry". [8] Her last book titled The Kept Woman and Other Stories, featuring translation of her short stories, was published posthumously. [14] Kamala Das is best remembered for her controversial writings where she openly talks about the restriction imposed on women.
Mridula Garg (born 1938) is an Indian writer who writes in Hindi and English languages. [1] [2] She has published over 30 books in Hindi – novels, short story collections, plays and collections of essays – including several translated into English. [3] She is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award. [4] [5]