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Sharifa Vijaliwala, (born 1962), Indian writer and translator; Pinki Virani (born 1959), journalist, best-selling novelist, non-fiction writer; Susan Visvanathan (born 1957), sociologist, non-fiction writer, novelist, essayist; Vrinda Singh, novelist writing on themes related to women
Suzanna Arundhati Roy (Bengali pronunciation: [orundʱoti: rae̯]; born 24 November 1961) [1] is an 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. [1]
Kamala Das was born in Punnayurkulam, Ponnani taluk, Malabar District, British India (present-day Thrissur district, Kerala) on 31 March 1934, to V. M. Nair, a managing editor of the widely circulated Malayalam daily Mathrubhumi, and Nalapat Balamani Amma, a renowned Malayali family.
Her writing deals with accounts of rural life in Maharashtra, particularly her native region of Marathwada and Khandesh, and of the lives of women, covering themes of nature, motherhood, and solitude. [5] Her poetry has been widely translated into other Indian languages, including Hindi and Rajasthani. [1]
Anita Desai FRSL (born Anita Mazumdar, 24 June 1937) is an Indian novelist and Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [1] She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times.
Women writers (poets, novelists, screenplay writers, playwrights, journalists etc.) who live or have lived in India, or who are of Indian origin, or both. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Indian writers .
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]
Kamala Markandaya (23 June 1924 – 16 May 2004), [1] pseudonym of Kamala Purnaiya, married name Kamala Taylor, was a British Indian novelist and journalist. She has been called "one of the most important Indian novelists writing in English". [2]