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Isha Basant Joshi (born 1908, date of death unknown), poet, short story writer. Anees Jung (born 1944), journalist, columnist, non-fiction writer. Kirthi Jayakumar (born 1987), author, non-fiction writer, women's rights activist, feminist. Jyoti Arora (born 1977) Blogger, novelist.
Literature portal. 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. It includes writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
The novel won the Sushila Devi Book Award 2022 for the best novel by a woman writer in India. [11] It was shortlisted for the Tata Book of the Year Award for Fiction 2022, as well as the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2022.
m. from the BBC programme Bookclub, 2 October 2011. [ 5 ] Suzanna Arundhati Roy (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 Surayya (born Kamala; 31 March 1934 – 31 May 2009), popularly known by her one-time pen name Madhavikutty and married name Kamala Das, was an Indian poet in English as well as an author in Malayalam from Kerala, India. Her fame in Kerala primarily stems from her short stories and autobiography, My Story, whereas her body of work in ...
Kiran Desai is the daughter of novelist Anita Desai. Kiran was born in Delhi, then spent the early years of her life in Punjab and in Mumbai, where she studied at Cathedral and John Connon School. She left India at 14, and she and her mother lived in England for a year, before moving to the United States. Kiran Desai studied creative writing at ...
The Akademi annually confers on writers of "the most outstanding books of literary merit". The awards are given for works published in any of the 24 languages recognised by the akademi. [1] Instituted in 1954, the award recognizes and promotes excellence in writing and acknowledge new trends.
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. Along with Ritu Menon, she co-founded Kali for ...