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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 ...
Pages in category "21st-century Indian women writers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 547 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ...
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.
In total, Tharu has published six books on these topics. Her most well known work which she edited with K. Lalitha is the two-part anthology titled Women Writing In India, 600 B.C. [10] Her works are most well known for their critical viewpoint on the Indian women's movement and cultural theory. [11]
Prominent Dalit women authors, have brought attention to the struggles of their communities, contributing to the development of Dalit feminism and providing a foundation for understanding the complexities of caste, class, and gender in Indian society. [60] [61] [62] Some prominent Dalit women authors and their works include:
"A book must be a distillation of a lifetime’s worth of thought, feeling and experience" [8] "Proud of being a Woman, an Indian and a Sindhi" Menka Shivdasani [ 9 ] "Menka Shivdasani : Five Minutes With is a series of interviews with contemporary poets from India" Menka Shivdasani [ 10 ]
Her works have received international acclaim and she is renowned as a sensation in contemporary Tamil literature. [1] [4] She is a member of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and involved in women's and transgender rights activism. [5] Between 2007 and 2011, she served as the chairperson of the State Social Welfare Board of Tamil Nadu. [6]