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  Sharankumar Limbale

  Sharankumar Limbale is a Marathi language author, poet and literary critic. He has penned more than 40 books, but is best known for his autobiography Akkarmashi. Akkarmashi is translated in several other Indian languages and in English. The English translation is published by the Oxford University Press with the title The Outcaste. His critical work Towards an Aesthetics of Dalit Literature (2004) is considered amongst the most important works on Dalit literature.

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  Lalithambika Antharjanam

  Lalithambika Antharjanam (ലളിതാംബിക അന്തര്‍ജനം) (1909–1987) was an Indian author and social reformer best known for her literary works in Malayalam language. Her published oeuvre consists of nine volumes of short stories, six collections of poems, two books for children, and a novel, Agnisakshi (1976) which won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award and Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1977. Her autobiography Aathmakadhakkoru Aamukham (An Introduction to Autobiography) is a very significant work.
  
  She was greatly influenced by Mahatma Gandhi and social reform movements among the Nambudiri caste led by V. T. Bhattathiripad. Later she contributed to the social reform in her own way. Her writing reflects a sensitivity to the women's role in society, an

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  Sylvia Plath

  Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the most influential and emotionally powerful authors of the 20th century. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she demonstrated literary talent from an early age, publishing her first poem at the age of eight. Her early life was shaped by the death of her father, Otto Plath, when she was eight years old, a trauma that would profoundly influence her later work.
  Plath attended Smith College, where she excelled academically but also struggled privately with depression. In 1953, she survived a suicide attempt, an experience she later fictionalized in her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar. After recovering, she earned a Fulbright Scholarship to study

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  Marjane Satrapi

  Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی) is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novellist, illustrator, animated film director, and children's book author. Apart from her native tongue Persian, she speaks English, Swedish, German, French and Italian.
  
  Satrapi grew up in Tehran in a family which was involved with communist and socialist movements in Iran prior to the Iranian Revolution. She attended the Lycée Français there and witnessed, as a child, the growing suppression of civil liberties and the everyday-life consequences of Iranian politics, including the fall of the Shah, the early regime of Ruhollah Khomeini, and the first years of the Iran-Iraq War. She experienced an Iraqi air raid and Scud missile attacks on Tehran. Accordin

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  Chinua Achebe

  Works, including the novel Things Fall Apart (1958), of Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe describe traditional African life in conflict with colonial rule and westernization.
  
  This poet and critic served as professor at Brown University. People best know and most widely read his first book in modern African literature.
  
  Christian parents in the Igbo town of Ogidi in southeastern Nigeria reared Achebe, who excelled at school and won a scholarship for undergraduate studies. World religions and traditional African cultures fascinated him, who began stories as a university student. After graduation, he worked for the Nigerian broadcasting service and quickly moved to the metropolis of Lagos. He gained worldwide attention in the late 1950s; his la

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  O. Henry

  Such volumes as Cabbages and Kings (1904) and The Four Million (1906) collect short stories, noted for their often surprising endings, of American writer William Sydney Porter, who used the pen name O. Henry.
  
  His biography shows where he found inspiration for his characters. His era produced their voices and his language.
  
  Mother of three-year-old Porter died from tuberculosis. He left school at fifteen years of age and worked for five years in drugstore of his uncle and then for two years at a Texas sheep ranch.
  
  In 1884, he went to Austin, where he worked in a real estate office and a church choir and spent four years as a draftsman in the general land office. His wife and firstborn died, but daughter Margaret survived him.
  
  He failed

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  bell hooks

  bell hooks (deliberately in lower-case; born Gloria Jean Watkins) was an African-American author, feminist, and social activist. Her writing focused on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender and their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and domination. She published over thirty books and numerous scholarly and mainstream articles, appeared in several documentary films and participated in various public lectures. Primarily through a postmodern female perspective, she addressed race, class, and gender in education, art, history, sexuality, mass media and feminism.

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  Shyam Selvadurai

  Shyam Selvadurai is a Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist who wrote Funny Boy (1994), which won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and Cinnamon Gardens (1998). He currently lives in Toronto with his partner Andrew Champion.
  
  Selvadurai was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka to a Sinhalese mother and a Tamil father--members of conflicting ethnic groups whose troubles form a major theme in his work. Ethnic riots in 1983 drove the family to emigrate to Canada when Selvadurai was nineteen. He studied creative and professional writing as part of a Bachelor of Fine Arts program at York University.
  
  Selvadurai recounted an account of the discomfort he and his partner experienced during a period spent in Sri Lanka in 1997 in his essay "Coming Out" in Time Asia's

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  William Dalrymple

  Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
  
  William Dalrymple was born in Scotland and brought up on the shores of the Firth of Forth. He wrote the highly acclaimed bestseller In Xanadu when he was twenty-two. The book won the 1990 Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award and a Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award; it was also shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize.
  
  In 1989 Dalrymple moved to Delhi where he lived for six years researching his second book, City of Djinns, which won the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. From the Holy Mountain, his acclaimed study of the demise of Christianity in its Middle Eastern homeland, was

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  Taslima Nasrin

  Taslima Nasrin (Bengali: তসলিমা নাসরিন) is an award-winning Bangladeshi writer, physician, secular humanist and human rights activist, known for her powerful writings on women oppression and unflinching criticism of religion, despite forced exile and multiple fatwas calling for her death. Early in her literary career, she wrote mainly poetry, and published half a dozen collections of poetry between 1982 and 1993, often with female oppression as a theme. She started publishing prose in the early 1990s, and produced three collections of essays and four novels before the publication of her 1993 novel Lajja (Bengali: লজ্জা Lôjja), or Shame. Because of her thoughts and ideas she has been banned, blacklisted and banished from Bengal, both from Ba

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  Saadat Hasan Manto

  Saadat Hasan Manto (Urdu: سعادت حسن منٹو, Hindi: सआदत हसन मंटो), the most widely read and the most controversial short-story writer in Urdu, was born on 11 May 1912 at Sambrala in Punjab's Ludhiana District. In a writing career spanning over two decades he produced twenty-two collections of short stories, one novel, five collections of radio plays, three collections of essays, two collections of reminiscences and many scripts for films. He was tried for obscenity half a dozen times, thrice before and thrice after independence. Not always was he acquitted. Some of Manto's greatest work was produced in the last seven years of his life, a time of great financial and emotional hardship for him. He died a few months short of his forty-third birt

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  Lalithambika Antharjanam

  Lalithambika Antharjanam (ലളിതാംബിക അന്തര്‍ജനം) (1909–1987) was an Indian author and social reformer best known for her literary works in Malayalam language. Her published oeuvre consists of nine volumes of short stories, six collections of poems, two books for children, and a novel, Agnisakshi (1976) which won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award and Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1977. Her autobiography Aathmakadhakkoru Aamukham (An Introduction to Autobiography) is a very significant work.
  
  She was greatly influenced by Mahatma Gandhi and social reform movements among the Nambudiri caste led by V. T. Bhattathiripad. Later she contributed to the social reform in her own way. Her writing reflects a sensitivity to the women's role in society, an

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  Buddhadeva Bose

  Buddhadeva Bose (also spelt Buddhadeb Bosu) (Bengali: বুদ্ধদেব বসু ) was a major Bengali writer of the 20th century. Frequently referred to as a poet, he was a versatile writer who wrote novels, short stories, plays and essays in addition to poetry. He was an influential critic and editor of his time. He is recognized as one of the five poets who moved to introduce modernity into Bengali poetry. It has been said that since Tagore, perhaps, there has been no greater talent in Bengali literature. His wife Protiva Bose was also a writer.
  
  Buddhadeva Bose received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1967 for his verse play Tapaswi O Tarangini, received the Rabindra Puraskar in 1974 for Swagato Biday(poetry) and was honoured with a Padma Bhushan in 19

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  Sharankumar Limbale

  Sharankumar Limbale is a Marathi language author, poet and literary critic. He has penned more than 40 books, but is best known for his autobiography Akkarmashi. Akkarmashi is translated in several other Indian languages and in English. The English translation is published by the Oxford University Press with the title The Outcaste. His critical work Towards an Aesthetics of Dalit Literature (2004) is considered amongst the most important works on Dalit literature.

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  Moti Nandi

  Moti Nandi was a sports journalist and worked as a sports editor in Anandabazar Patrika. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award (2008) at a glittering ceremony to mark the grand finale of the maiden edition of the Excellence in Journalism Awards.
  
  In his novels, he is noted for his depiction of sporting events and many of his protagonists are sports-persons. His first short story was published in Desh weekly on 1957. His story for Pujabarshiki was in Parichoy Magazine on 1985.

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  Ramapada Chowdhury

  রমাপদ চৌধুরীর জন্ম ২৮ ডিসেম্বর ১৯২২। কৈশোর কেটেছে রেল-শহর খড়গপুরে। শিক্ষা: প্রেসিডেন্সি কলেজ। ইংরেজি সাহিত্যে এম.এ.। গল্প-উপন্যাস ছাড়াও রয়েছে একাধিক প্রবন্ধের বই, স্মৃতিকথা এবং একটি অত্যাশ্চর্য ছড়ার বই। বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় থেকে পেয়েছেন সাম্মানিক ডি লিট, ১৯৯৮৷ ১৯৮৮-তে পেয়েছেন সাহিত্য অকাদেমি পুরস্কার। কলকাতা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের সর্বোচ্চ সাহিত্য সম্মান জগত্তারিণী স্বর্ণপদক ১৯৮৭। ওই বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের শরৎচন্দ্র পদক ও পুরস্কার ১৯৮৪। শরৎসমিতির শরৎচন্দ্র পুরস্কার ১৯৯৭। রবীন্দ্র পুরস্কার ১৯৭১। আনন্দ পুরস্কার ১৯৬৩৷ তাঁর গল্পসমগ্র বইটিও কলকাতা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের কর্তৃক পুরস্কৃত। হিন্দি, মালয়ালাম, গুজরাতি ও তামিল ভাষায় অনূদিত হয়েছে তাঁর বহু উপন্যাস ও গল্প। প্রকাশিত হয়েছে বহু রচনার ইংরেজি, চেক ও জার্মান অনুবাদ। তিনিই একমাত্র ভারতীয় লেখক, যাঁর গল্প সংকল

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  Nabarun Bhattacharya

  Nabarun Bhattacharya was an Indian Bengali writer deeply committed to a revolutionary and radical aesthetics. He was born at Baharampur (Berhampur), West Bengal. He was the only child of actor Bijon Bhattacharya and writer Mahashweta Devi.
  
  He is most known for his anarchic novel, Herbert (1993), which was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, and adapted into a film by the same name in 2005.
  
  Nabarun is renowned as a fiction writer, and justifiably so. But he wrote poems as well and Ei Mrityu Upotyoka Aaamaar Desh Na (This Valley of Death Is Not My Country) is arguably his most acclaimed collection of poems.
  
  Nabarun over the years consistently contributed to various little magazines, which together constitute a promising alternative mode of liter

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  Mahasweta Devi

  Mahasweta Devi was an Indian social activist and writer. She was born in 1926 in Dhaka, to literary parents in a Hindu Brahmin family. Her father Manish Ghatak was a well-known poet and novelist of the Kallol era, who used the pseudonym Jubanashwa. Mahasweta's mother Dharitri Devi was also a writer and a social worker.
  
  She joined the Rabindranath Tagore-founded Vishvabharati University in Santiniketan and completed a B.A. (Hons) in English, and then finished an M.A. in English at Calcutta University as well. She later married renowned playwright Bijon Bhattacharya who was one of the founding fathers of the IPTA movement. In 1948, she gave birth to Nabarun Bhattacharya, currently one of Bengal's and India's leading novelist whose works are n

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  U.R. Ananthamurthy

  Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy was a contemporary writer and critic in the Kannada language and is considered as one of the pioneers of the Navya movement. He is the sixth person among eight recipients of the Jnanpith Award for the Kannada language, the highest literary honor conferred in India. In 1998, he received the Padma Bhushan award from the Government of India and in 2013, he was nominated for Man Booker International Prize.
  
  Ananthamurthy's works have been translated into several Indian and European languages and have been awarded with important literary prizes. His main works include Samskara, Bhava, Bharathi Pura, and Avasthe. He has written numerous short stories as well. Several of his novels and short fictions have been ma

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  Smaranjit Chakraborty

  স্মরণজিৎ চক্রবর্তীর জন্ম ১৯ জুন ১৯৭৬, কলকাতায়। বর্তমানে দক্ষিণ কলকাতার বাসিন্দা। পৈতৃক ব্যবসায় যুক্ত। প্রথম ছোটগল্প উনিশ কুড়ি-র প্রথম সংখ্যায় প্রকাশিত। প্রথম ধারাবাহিক দেশ পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত।
  শখ: কবিতা, ফুটবল আর সিনেমা।

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  Sun-mi Hwang

  Hwang Seon-mi is a South Korean author and professor who is best known for her fable The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly, which has also been made into a successful animated film in South Korea, Leafie, A Hen into the Wild.

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  Harsha Dutta

  হর্ষ দত্তর জন্ম ১৯৫৫, কলকাতায়। পড়াশোনা করেছেন বঙ্গবাসী কলেজ-স্কুল, রহড়া রামকৃষ্ণ মিশন বিদ্যালয়, প্রেসিডেন্সি কলেজ, কলকাতা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় ও রবীন্দ্রভারতী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়। অধ্যাপনা বৃত্তির সঙ্গে নিযুক্ত থাকবেন- এই লক্ষ্যে সাধ্যমতো পরীক্ষায় ভাল ফলাফলের চেষ্টা করেছেন। বাংলা ভাষা ও সাহিত্যে প্রথম শ্রেণির এম.এ এবং এম.ফিল।অধ্যাপনার সুযোগ পেলেও, আশির দশকে রাজনীতি-অধ্যুষিত শিক্ষা ব্যবস্থার প্রবল প্রকোপে, এই পথে যেতে পারেননি। গ্রহণ করেছিলেন সাংবাদিকতার বৃত্তি।রামকৃষ্ণ-ভাবান্দোলনের সঙ্গে যুক্ত আছেন আবাল্য। অস্ট্রেলিয়া, চিন, আমেরিকা, দক্ষিণ কোরিয়া, থাইল্যান্ড, হংকং ইত্যাদি দেশে সাহিত্যসংক্রান্ত আমন্ত্রণে ও প্রাতিষ্ঠানিক কাজে পরিভ্রমণ করেছেন।লেখক হিসেবে স্বীকৃতিস্বরূপ পেয়েছেন একাধিক পুরস্কার। যেমন সমরেশ বসু সাহিত্য পুরস্কার, বিচয়ন সাহিত্য পুরস্কার, নিবেদিত

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  Sakyajit Bhattacharya

  শাক্যজিৎ ভট্টাচার্যের জন্ম ১৯৮২ সালে। পেশায় রাশিবিজ্ঞানী। বিশ্বসাহিত্যের নিষ্ণাত পাঠক শাক্যজিৎ বিচিত্র বিষয়ে নিরীক্ষামূলক গল্প, উপন্যাস লিখছেন সাম্প্রতিক সময়ে।

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  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Best of the Best” award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Her most recent work is an essay about losing her father, Notes on Grief, and Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a children’s book written as Nwa Grace-James. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the Unit

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  Saou Ichikawa

  Saou Ichikawa graduated from the School of Human Sciences, Waseda University. Her bestselling debut novel, Hunchback, won the Bungakukai Prize for New Writers, and she is the first author with a physical disability to receive the Akutagawa Prize, one of Japan’s top literary awards. She has congenital myopathy and uses a ventilator and an electric wheelchair. Ichikawa lives outside Tokyo.

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