Indu Sundaresan

Indu Sundaresan is an American author of Indian origins. She was born and raised in India as a daughter of an Indian Air Force pilot who died in a crash while on duty. The family then moved to Bangalore where she collected books eagerly. She then migrated to the United States for graduate studies at the University of Delaware in economics.

Her short fiction has appeared in The Vincent Brothers Review and on iVillage.com. She lives in the Seattle, Washington area. [http://www.writtenvoices.com/titlepage.asp?ISBN=0743427149]

Her first novel "The Twentieth Wife" is about how a young widow named Mehrunissa, daughter of Persian refugees and wife of an Afghan commandwer, becomes Empress of the Mughal Empire under the name of Nur Jahan. Her second novel "The Feast of Roses" is the sequel to "The Twentieth Wife".She is also the author of "The Splendor of Silence", historical fiction set in a fictional Indian princely state just before Independence (1947).

Awards

She was awarded the Washington State Book Award for "The Twentieth Wife" in 2003.

References

* [http://www.indusundaresan.com/bio.htm Biography] at Indu Sundaresan's home page
* [http://www.powells.com/essays/sundaresan.html Essay] by the author
*Uma Girish [http://calitreview.com/topics/india/83/ "An Interview with Novelist Indu Sundaresan"] "California Literary Review", 3 April 2007.
* [http://usinfo.state.gov/usinfo/USINFO/Products/Webchats/sundaresan_05_oct_2006.html "Acclaimed Indian American Writer to Chat with Frankfurt Book Fair"] 5 October 2006, transcript from show.
* [http://www.sawnet.org/books/authors.php?Sundaresan+Indu SAWNET profile: Indu Sundaresan] .

External links

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