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Along with his flourishing advertising career, he authored two books: The Competent Authority and Murder with Bengali Characteristics
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The author of 27 books, including the twelve-volume autobiographical series Continents of Exile, a MacArthur Prize fellow, and member of the British Royal Society of Literature, Mehta also taught writing at numerous colleges and universities
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He wrote 29 novels, the last one being The Business of Lovers: A Novel
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The author had an expansive literary career, and in 2015 had won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his collection of short stories, Ilakkiya Chuvadukal
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British writer Maggie O’Farrell, 48, winner of this year’s Women’s Prize, on a mother’s grief, life in a post-pandemic world and reclaiming Shakespeare’s wife from obscurity
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A Jesuit priest, Father Valles was born in Spain but he lived in India for nearly five decades and wrote extensively in Gujarati apart from English and Spanish
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The series, known as The Reclaim Her Name, will mark the 25th anniversary of Women's Prize
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The author had also revealed that the reason for submitting her story for Commonwealth stemmed from the way the prize values the unique position of a post-colonial writer
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'The beauty of turning 40 is that you know what you want, very clearly. The same happened with me.'
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The author of five short stories and three novels won the Gujarati Sahitya Academy award in 1985 for her novel Saat Pagla Aakashma.
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Jaipur, Jan 21 (ANI): The Jaipur Literature Festival kick started on Thursday morning with the performance of local award-winning Rajasthani musicians Nathoo Solanki and Chugge Khan. The annual event is being held at the Diggi Palace. The event is slated to run from 21-25 January. The festival is completely free and open to all, attracting visitors from all four corners of the globe. Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje will inaugurate the event in a ceremony, which will include a keynote address from award-winning author Margaret Atwood.
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New Delhi, Jan 10 (ANI): Journalist and writer Sharda Shukla on Sunday unveiled her first book, 'Kalam Ki Cocktail' at Constitutional Club in the national capital.The author said the book is a compilation of a wide range of articles, from poetry to informative write-ups, on epic like Mahabharata. She said the book could be used as an encyclopaedia by readers.