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Samina Ali, contemporary Indian-American novelist, feminist, author of Madras on Rainy Days; Balamani Amma (1909–2004), poet, published many collections of poetry in Malayalam; K. Saraswathi Amma (1919–1975), short story writer, novelist, feminist
This is a list of San Francisco Bay Area writers, ... (January 26, 1943 – ), Woman and Nature ... 2008), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society; Dave ...
In 2013, Divakaruni wrote the libretto to a chamber opera for Houston Grand Opera, River of Light, about the life of an Indian woman in Houston. It premiered in 2014 [ 16 ] with original compositions by Jack Perla [ 17 ] and was shown again in 2015 by the opera company Festival Opera, directed by Tanya Kane-Parry at the Oakland Asian Cultural ...
Aunt Lute has published a number of high-profile feminist and lesbian authors, including Audre Lorde (The Cancer Journals), Gloria Anzaldúa (Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza), Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, LeAnne Howe (Shell Shaker, winner of the 2002 Before Columbus American Book Award, and Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story), Alice Walker, and Paula Gunn Allen.
Susie Tharu (born 1943) is an Indian writer, publisher, professor, editor and women's activist. [9] Throughout her career and the founding of several women's activist organizations, Tharu has helped to highlight those issues in India.
K. Srilata (also known as Srilata Krishnan) is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and academic based in Chennai. [1] Her poem, In Santa Cruz, Diagnosed Home Sick won the First Prize in the All India Poetry Competition (organized by the British Council and The Poetry Society (India)) in 1998. [2]
Santhini Govindan was born in San Francisco, California, to Santha Kutty and her husband Madhavan Kutty, a career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service. [1] She studied at the American Embassy International Schools at Prague in Czechoslovakia, in Bern, Switzerland, and in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where her father was posted as a diplomat.
Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize [ 1 ] and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. [ 2 ] In January 2015, The Economic Times listed her as one of 20 "most influential" global Indian women.