Top 10 Female Authors from India
Top 10 Female Authors from India.
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A woman is questioned in every aspect of the society and every time she has proved herself stronger with flying colours. In the world of literature, female authors have made major contributions in raising significant questions and bringing about a change in the society. Many exceptional and extraordinary women brought revolutionary changes through their writing and creative skills. Although we have thousands of budding women writers in the country at the moment, here at SHARING STORIES, we tried to list out 10 remarkable women authors who’ve already started their journey and contributed various books to the Indian literature.
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JUMPA LAHIRI
“When you are in love, you want to live forever,” she says, “and I don’t want to die, because my death would mark the end of the discovery of the language.”- JUMPA LAHIRI, in an interview by Francesce Pellas.
Jumpa Lahiri by name Nilanjana Sudeshna is one of the most famous women authors in India, who believes in falling in love with the language. This award-winning author has written many short stories, novels and essays in English and in Italian.
Her famous work includes Interpreter of Maladies, published in year 1999 which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000 and The Namesake, which was later adapted into a movie of the same name. “Unaccustomed Earth” and “The Lowland”, all of which won major acclaims and appreciation from its readers.
Readers love to read her depiction of immigrant and Indian-American life, her stories also capture universal themes of longing, loneliness and barriers of communication. Her social media accounts for more than 155k followers.
ARUNDHATI ROY
Suzanna Arundhati Roy is very well known as an Indian novelist and a political and social activist. She is the best seller for The God of Small Things that won the prestigious Man Booker prize in year 1997. She also wrote a television serial, The Banyan Tree and documentary, DAM/AGE: A Film with Arundhati Roy. She contributed to a book, We Are One: A Celebration of Tribal Peoples that’s about different types of cultures and tribes across the world. She also has a collection of numerous essays on Indian politics under her name.
“Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have naturally adversarial relationship with power.”
Roy is also known as India’s most noted authors and human rights activist. She could publish a wide range of non- fiction, covering topics from the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan to a condemnation of India’s nuclear tests.
She marks 364k followers on Facebook, managed by her publisher.
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Kiran Desai
Coming from the family of a novelist, Kiran is a Delhi-based author who started her journey with her book Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, which was published in 1998. She was the youngest female author to receive Man Booker Prize for fiction in year 2007 and got accolades from some famous people like Salman Rushdie and awards like the Betty Trask Award and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.
“When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.”
The author has 33k followers on social media and what makes her work so fascinating is the way she presents the vast canvas of our contemporary society in the broad perspective of globalisation, through themes like alienation, cultural clashes, displacement and exile. Her words shower the reader with avenues to reflect deep within their inner psyche and make them shift the perspective.
NIKITA LALWANI
Another woman Indian novelist who was born in Kota, Rajasthan and raised in Cardiff, Wales. Nikita started writing at the age of 16 and her work has been appreciated worldwide and translated into sixteen languages.
She has written a couple of famous books like Gifted that was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 and The Village that was selected for the Fiction Uncovered campaign for the best of British Fiction in 2013. Her other books include Seasons: A Book Of Poetry About Sweets, Treats and Random Feats, Pinjarey Mein Udaan and You People.
“Much like success, happiness is also a journey & not a destination.”
Nikita maintains her facebook account with more than 33k followers. In an interview with Book talk, she tells “Live and Let live” is her pet phrase and Bhagvat Gita is her favourite book in her book shelf
ANITA DESAI
As an exceptional Indian writer and one of the very few to get shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times.
“Where ever you go, becomes a part of you somehow.”
Author covers various sensitive issues in her novels like affection in marriage, isolation, and escapism. In her novel, Cry peacock, Anita explores themes like marital disharmony, escapism and loss of hope in life. She has also received a Sahitya Academy Award for her novel Fire On The Mountain in 1978 and the British Guardian Prize for her exceptionally well-written The Village By The Sea.
INDU SUNDARESAN
Indu is an Indian – American historical fiction author who writes fictional stories on the princesses of the Mughal Dynasty. Her first book The Twentieth Wife was published in 2002.
Indu is also the recipient of the Light of India award for Excellence in Literature. Her work has been translated into some 23 languages worldwide. The translation that makes her the most happy and proud is that of the Taj trilogy novels in Tamil, her mother tongue, translated by her mother, Madhuram Sundaresan, and published by Vanathi Pathipaggam in Chennai, India.
‘’Troubles when voiced are carried away on the wind; they have no place upon which to perch’’
Readers like to read her historical fiction with an interesting crisp base. Her writings also include The Feast of Roses, The Splendor of Silence, In The Convent of Little Flowers, Shadow Princess: A Novel, The Mountain of Light etc.
CHITRA BANERJEE
Born in year 1963, Chitralekha Banerjee is known as an Indian American author. She is famous for her vivid collection of poetry, short stories, novels; fantasy, young adult, magical realism, historical fiction.
“Everyone breathes in air, but it’s a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence”.
Her short story collection, Arranged Marriage won an American Book Award in 1996, and two of her novels (The Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart) as well as a short story The Word Love were adapted into films. Mistress of Spices was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Currently, Sister of My Heart, Oleander Girl, Palace of Illusions, and One Amazing Thing have all been optioned to be made into movies or TV serials.
Chitra Banerjee’s latest novel, The Forest of Enchantments, based on the Indian epic The Ramayan, turns out to be an interesting story the point of the main female character, Sita also includes in the most notable works done by her.
ANUJA CHAUHAN
You might have heard classy lines from different campaigns led by Pepsi, Kurkure, Mountain Dew and Nokia, like Pepsi’s “Nothing official about it” campaign and advertising slogans such as Pepsi’s “Yeh Dil Maange More” and “Oye Bubbly” all these are created by Anuja Chuhan, who is popular for her creative writing.
“We are all arrogant about something, one hundred percent you’ve got something too.”
Anuja Chauhan is an Indian author, advertiser and screenwriter who often loves to share her moments from life on social media, having more than 24k followers on Facebook and serves 10k followers on Instagram.
She is known for her creative writing books she has written like, The Zoya Factor, Battle For Bittora, Those Pricey Thakur Girls, The house that BJ built and Baaz.
SHASHI DESHPANDE
“Love gets diluted, hate is forgotten and friendship and enmity keep shifting all the time. One day, when you look back, you will ask yourself- what was it all about.”
Shashi Deshpande is an Indian novelist who was born in a Kannad family in year 1938. You many find a long list of books and novels written by her in different genres including four children’s books, a number of short stories, and nine novels, besides several perceptive essays, available in a volume entitled Writing from the Margin and Other Essays. She won the Sahitya Akademi Award (which she returned later on for protest against Akademi’s perceived inaction) for the novel That Long Silence in 1990 and the Padma Shri award in 2009. Her novel Shadow Play was shortlisted for The Hindu Literary Prize in 2014.
MEENA KANDASAMY
Ilavenil Meena Kandasamy (born 1984) is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and activist who is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Most of her works are centred on feminism and the anti-caste Caste Annihilation Movement of the contemporary Indian milieu. The Gypsy Goddess, When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife (It was shortlisted for Women’s Prize 2018) and Exquisite Cadavers.
Violence is not something that advertises itself. It is not written on my face. As long as a woman cannot speak, as long as to whom she speaks who do not listen, the violence is unending.” – Meena Kandasamy
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