Manju kapur biography
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Manju Kapur
Manju Kapur (born Amritsar, India) is an Indian novelist. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, won the 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.
Manju Kapur is a professor of English at Miranda House in Delhi. Having done her graduation from Miranda House, Manju did her MA in English from Dalhousie University in Canada and went on do her M Phil from Delhi University.
Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, received the Commonwealth Award for the Eurasian region. The book is set during India’s independence struggle and is partially based on the life of Kapur’s own mother, Virmati.
With several books to her credit, Manju is, these days, busy “struggling with a novel based in both India and Canada, tentatively called The Immigrant. It’s about an NRI marriage.” Happy that women’s writing has come of age in India, she says, “Women have a lot of things to
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An Interview with Manju Kapur, Bestselling Indian Author
The more Manju Kapur writes, the more accolades she seems to collect. The Indian novelist published her first novel Difficult Daughters in , and was rewarded with the Commonwealth Prize for best first novel. Her next novel, A Married Woman, was shortlisted for the Encore Award; her third novel, Home, was nominated for the Hutch Crossword Book Award. And so on.
What makes Manju Kapur’s books so endlessly readable? She writes about something relatable: families and the lives of women. Each of her novels examines the roles of womanhood—. And each of her novels explores these themes with “quiet intelligence and wry, deadpan humor” (The Observer).
Recently, Early Bird Books reached out to Manju Kapur to discuss her writing. Keep reading to discover how she started her first novel, what she’s been working on during quarantine, and the books she wants to tell the world about.
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Manju Kapur
Indian writer
Manju Kapur is an Indian novelist. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia.[1]
Personal life
[edit]She is married to Gun Nidhi Dalmia; they have three children and four grandchildren, and live in New Delhi.[2]
Awards and honors
[edit]Works
[edit]- Difficult Daughters, Penguin India, ; Faber and Faber, , ISBN&#;
- A Married Woman, India Ink, ; Faber and Faber, , ISBN&#;
- Home, Random House India, , ISBN&#;; Faber and Faber, , ISBN&#;
- The Immigrant, Random House, India, , ISBN&#;; Faber And Faber, , ISBN&#;
- Custody, Faber & Faber, , ISBN&#;
- Shaping the World: Women Writers on Themselves, ed. Manju Kapur, Hay House India,
- Brothers, Penguin, UK,
Television adaptations
[edit]Manju Kapur's novel "Custody" has been the basis of daily soap operas on several Indian television channels in various languages:
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