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Nandini Sahu (born 1973), English-language poet, folklorist, academic; Indira Sant (1914–2000), Marathi poet; Krupabai Satthianadhan (1862–1894), early English-language Indian novelist; Mala Sen (1947–2011), writer and human rights activist, author of India's Bandit Queen; Mallika Sengupta (1960–2011), Bengali poet, novelist, feminist ...
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2C, 7th Edition. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000: 2768 – 2785. Alter, Stephen and Wimal Dissanayake. "A Devoted Son by Anita Desai". The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories. New Delhi, Middlesex, New York: Penguin Books, 1991: 92–101. Gupta, Indra. India's 50 Most Illustrious Women.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:21st-century Indian writers. It includes Indian writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Contents
The first book written by an Indian in English was The Travels of Dean Mahomet, a travel narrative by Sake Dean Mahomed, published in England in 1794. IEL, in its early stages had influence from The Western novel. Early Indian writers used English unadulterated by Indian words to convey an experience which was essentially Indian.
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 from ...
The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men."
In 2009, The Times called her "the mother of modern English Indian poetry". [8] Her last book titled The Kept Woman and Other Stories, featuring translation of her short stories, was published posthumously. [14] Kamala Das is best remembered for her controversial writings where she openly talks about the restriction imposed on women.
Sithara S. (born 1972) is an Indian feminist writer in Malayalam from Kerala. [1] In her short stories and novels she has highlighted women's issues, gender conflict and lesbian rights. [2] In 2004 she won Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award for her contributions to Indian literature [3] She is also a translator from Malayalam to English and ...