Manju Kapur
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Manju Kapur is an Indian novelist. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize
, best first book, Europe and South Asia.
She is married; they have three children and three grandchildren, and live in New Delhi.
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Commonwealth Writers is an initiative by the Commonwealth Foundation to unearth, develop and promote the best new fiction from across the Commonwealth. It's flagship are two literary awards and a website...
, best first book, Europe and South Asia.
She is married; they have three children and three grandchildren, and live in New Delhi.
Awards and honors
- 2011: DSC Prize for South Asian LiteratureDSC Prize for South Asian LiteratureDSC Prize for South Asian Literature is a literary prize awarded annually to writers of any ethnicity or nationality writing about South Asia themes such as culture, politics, history, or people. It is for an original full-length novel written in English, or translated into English. The first award...
, short-list, The Immigrant - 1999: Commonwealth Writers' PrizeCommonwealth Writers' PrizeCommonwealth Writers is an initiative by the Commonwealth Foundation to unearth, develop and promote the best new fiction from across the Commonwealth. It's flagship are two literary awards and a website...
, best first book, Europe and South Asia, Difficult Daughters
Works
- Difficult Daughters, Penguin India, 1998; Faber and Faber, 1998, ISBN 9780571192892
- A Married Woman, India Ink, 2003; Faber and Faber, 2003, ISBN 9780571215683
- Home, Random House India, 2006, ISBN 9788184000009; Faber and Faber, 2006, ISBN 9780571228416
- The Immigrant, Random House, India, 2008, ISBN 9788184000481; Faber And Faber, 2009, ISBN 9780571244072
- Custody, Faber & Faber, 2011, ISBN 9780571274024
External links
- "A meeting with Manju Kapur", Jabberwock, August 09, 2008
- "Manju Kapur", Sawnet