- Shashi Deshpande
Shashi Deshpande (b.1938), is an award-winning
India n novelist. She is the second daughter of famous Kannada dramatist and writer Shriranga. She was born inKarnataka and educated inBombay (now Mumbai) andBangalore . Deshpande has degrees inEconomics andLaw . When she was living in Mumbai she did a course onjournalism at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and worked for a couple of months as a journalist for the magazine 'Onlooker' [ [http://www.sawnet.org/books/authors.php?Deshpande+Shashi SAWNET: Bookshelf: Shashi Deshpande ] ] .She published her first collection of short stories in 1978, and her first novel, 'The Dark Holds No Terror', in 1980. She is a winner of the
Sahitya Akademi Award for the novel 'That Long Silence'. Her works also include children's books.Till date, Shashi Deshpande has worked on four
children’s books and sixnovels , besides several perceptiveessays , now available in a volume entitled 'Writing from the Margin & Other Essays'.Books
Her books include:
* "The Binding Vine", The Feminist Press at CUNY (2002), ISBN 1-55861-402-8
* "Matter of Time", The Feminist Press at CUNY (2001), ISBN 1-55861-264-5
* "That Long Silence", Penguin (paperback 1989), ISBN 0-14-012723-2
* "The Dark Holds No Terrors", Penguin Books India, ISBN: 0140145982
* "Small Remedies", Penguin India, ISBN: 9780140294873
* "Moving On", Penguin Books India, ISBN: 9780670057818Children's books
* "A Summer Adventure"
* "The Hidden Treasure"
* "The Only Witness"
* "The Narayanpur Incident"References
1. http://www.sawnet.org/books/authors.php?Deshpande+Shashi
External links
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/features/womenwriters/deshpande_life.shtml Feature on Women Writers, BBC World Service]
* [http://www.hindu.com/yw/2006/10/13/stories/2006101300430800.htm Review of 3 children's novels, The Hindu, Oct 13, 2006]
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