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Arundhati Roy (born 1961), Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author; Varsha Adalja (born 1940), Gujarati novelist, playwright; Smita Agarwal (born 1958), poet, educator; Vinita Agrawal (born 1965), poet ...
Priya Sarukkai Chabria is an Indian poet, translator and novelist writing in English, and a curator. [1] She has written four poetry collections, two speculative fiction novels, translations from Classical Tamil, literary nonfiction, and a novel.
Urvashi Butalia (born 1952) is an Indian feminist writer, publisher and activist. She is known for her work in the women's movement of India, as well as for authoring books such as The Other Side of Silence: Voices from and the Partition of India and Speaking Peace: Women's Voices from Kashmir.
21st-century Indian women educational theorists (28 P) Pages in category "21st-century Indian women writers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 547 total.
Margaret Elizabeth Cousins (née Gillespie, also known as Gretta Cousins; 7 November 1878 – 11 March 1954) was an Irish-Indian educationist, suffragist and Theosophist, who established All India Women's Conference (AIWC) in 1927. [1] She was the wife of poet and literary critic James Cousins, with whom she moved to India in 1915.
Annie Zaidi (born 1978) is an English-language writer from India.Her novel, Prelude To A Riot, won the Tata Literature Live!Awards for Book of the Year 2020. [1] In 2019, she won The Nine Dots Prize for her work Bread, Cement, Cactus [2] [3] and in 2018 she won The Hindu Playwright Award for her play, Untitled-1. [4]
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 ...
In December 2022, it won India's most prestigious literary prize, the Sahitya Akademi Award, given by India's literary academy to a work written in any genre in English. [ 9 ] The Earthspinner , her fifth novel, was published by Hachette India and the Mountain Leopard Press, London, in September 2021. [ 10 ]