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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 ...
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.
The first book written by an Indian in English was The Travels of Dean Mahomet, a travel narrative by Sake Dean Mahomed, published in England in 1794. IEL, in its early stages had influence from The Western novel. Early Indian writers used English unadulterated by Indian words to convey an experience which was essentially Indian.
Links in the Chain (Hindi: Srinkhala ki Kadiyan) is a collection of essays by Indian writer Mahadevi Varma (1907–1987) on women's inequality in India.The essays were written between 1931 and 1937 for the literary journal Chand, and were later published together as a volume in 1942.
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 ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:21st-century Indian writers. It includes Indian writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. See also: Category:21st-century Indian male writers
2022: "The Will" (story) by Moghal Mahmood, transl. from Hindi by Sara Rai. In: The Silence That Speaks: Stories by Indian Muslim Women, ed. by Haris Qadeer, Oxford University Press India. 2020: "On Not Writing" (essay). In: The Book of Indian Essays: Two Hundred Years of English Prose, ed. by Krishna Arvind Mehrotra, Black Kite and Hachette.
The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men."