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Reenita M. Hora is an Indian–American writer. She won the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize and Chanticleer International Book Awards. She also won the 2023 Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards for her book "Operation Mom".
Pages in category "American women writers of Indian descent" The following 103 pages are in this category, out of 103 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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 ...
Desai was born in 1937 in Mussoorie, India, to a German immigrant mother, Toni Nime, and a Bengali businessman, D. N. Mazumdar. [ 7 ] [ 1 ] Her father met her mother while he was an engineering student in pre-war Berlin .
[citation needed] The second book of the series, The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming came out in 2005 and the third and final book of the series, Shadowland, was published in 2009. Divakaruni's novel The Palace of Illusions , was a national best-seller for over a year in India and [ 11 ] is a re-telling of the Indian epic The Mahabharata from ...
Reviewing the novel, Indian poet and editor Dom Moraes praised the work, saying: "This is a novel well received and achieved: it is also intelligent, excellently written, and revelatory of what it is like to be an American born in India. It makes one feel Narayan is that very rare bird, a born writer, and that she may fly far." [10]
Megha Majumdar (born 1987/1988) is an Indian novelist who lives in New York City. Her debut novel, A Burning , was a New York Times best seller , won the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar award in 2021 and a Whiting Award in 2022.
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. [3]