Top 10 Women Writers India, Top 10 Woman authors in India 2011.
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10 Women Writers India, Top 10 Woman authors in India 2011, Top 10
Female Book Writers India, Top 10 Lady Novelist India 2010
1) Kiran Desai
Only the second Indian woman to ever win the Man Booker prize in 2006
for her second novel The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai has literary
talent in her very DNA. She’s the daughter of Anita Desai, the acclaimed
Indian English writer and won rave reviews for her debut novel,
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998). Though Desai lives in the US,
her work has focused on the tumult of 21st century India, migration,
globalization and the effect of the country’s rapid progress on all
social classes.
2) Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy made headlines around the world when she became the
first Indian woman to win a Man Booker prize for her debut novel, The
God of Small Things (1997). In the decade following that momentous
achievement, Roy has become an ardent advocate of social and economic
justice for the country’s oppressed minorities. She has published a
number of essays on subjects varying from India’s rapid
industrialization to the continuing problem of Kashmir.
3) Anita Desai
Anita Desai has been writing some of the best English language
fiction in India for almost four decades. She’s been shortlisted for the
Man Booker prize thrice and won the Sahitya Akademi Award, one of
India’s most prestigious literary prizes, in 1978 for her second novel,
Fire on the Mountain. Familial relationships and their evolution have
been the main themes of Desai’s fiction. She has taught at various
colleges in the US, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Her latest book is The Zigzag Way (2004).
4) Shashi Deshpande
Shashi Deshpande is the critically acclaimed writer of nine novels, a
number of short stories, children’s books and essays. Her novel, That
Long Silence, won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1990. Trained as a
journalist, Deshpande’s work focuses on the reality and truth of the
lives of Indian women. Deshpande has described her literary style as
“really a very simple and stark style, which rarely draws attention to
itself.” She received the Padma Sri award in 2009. Her latest book is
the novel, In the Country of Deceit (2008).
5) Shobhaa De
Shobhaa De, India’s best selling woman writer recently published her
16th book, sweet sixteenth (2009). De, a prolific columnist and blogger,
writes books filled with privileged protagonists from Bombay’s high
society. Known as the Indian Jackie Collins and “The Maharani of Muck”,
De shows no signs of slowing down after two decades of scaling
commercial highs.
Good translators and publishers of quality fiction in translation
such as Katha and Zubaan have propelled the success of regional language
literature in India. This boom has also helped a wider audience gain
access to the work of many writers, including the following five
acclaimed women authors:
6) Indira Goswami
Indira Goswami is one of the leading lights of Assamese and
contemporary Indian literature. She won the Jnanapith Award, India’s
highest literary honor given for a lifetime’s work, in 2000. Besides her
writing, poetry and scholarly work, Goswami is a well-respected
professor and social activist. Goswami’s work has focused on women and
various aspects of Assamese society. Her most famous works are Pages
Stained with Blood and The Moth-Eaten Howdah of a Tusker.
7) Mahasweta Devi
A social activist and acclaimed Bengali writer, Mahasweta Devi hails
from a family of literary luminaries. Devi has worked as a college
lecturer and journalist. The main themes of her fictional work have been
the brutalities inflicted upon the tribal minorities by the authorities
and upper classes. Devi won the Jnanapith award in 1996 and the Ramon
Magsaysay Award in 1997 for her contribution to literature. A number of
her works have been made into acclaimed films, including Rudaali and
Hazaar Chaurasi ki Maa.
8) Vaidehi
Janaki Srinivasa Murthy, who writes under the pseudonym Vaidehi, is
one of Kannada literature’s most talented contemporary writers and
poets. Her work has a strong social focus, especially the condition of
women in modern society. She won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2009 for
her collection of short stories. Girish Kasaravalli’s award winning 2008
film, Gulabi Talkies, is based on one of Vaidehi’s short stories.
9) C.S. Lakshmi (Ambai)
C.S. Lakshmi, one of modern Tamil literature’s most acclaimed women
writers, has written numerous stories under the pseudonym Ambai. The
English translation of her collected stories was published under the
title, The Purple Sea. C.S. Lakshmi is also one of India’s most
respected experts in women’s studies and was the founder-trustee of
Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women (SPARROW), of which she
is the current Director.
10) B.M. Suhara
Since the passing of Kamala Das in 2009, B.M. Suhara has emerged as
one of Malayalam literature’s leading women authors. Her work focuses on
the social problems of the Malabar Muslim community in Kerala. Her most
famous works are Nizhal (Shadow) and Venal (Summer). She won the Kerala
Sahitya Akademi Award in 2008 for her contribution to Malayalam
literature.
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