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Shashi Deshpande (born 1938) is an Indian novelist. She is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Padma Shri Award in 1990 and 2009 respectively.
Shashi Deshpande is one of the eminent novelists of contemporary Indian literature in English. Western readers align her with Anita Desai. Indeed, both writers' work centres around women's lives in modern Indian society.
Sep 27, 2021 · Just like a staunch feminist she “seeks to discover the female author’s quest for empowerment through self-expression by escaping the controlling authority of the male in the realm of social/sexual power” and examines the ‘double colonization’ of women under imperial and patriarchic condition.
Novelist and short story writer, Shashi Deshpande began her career with short stories and has by now authored nine short story collections, twelve novels and four books for children. Three of her novels have received awards, including the Sahitya Akademi award for `That Long Silence'.
Oct 10, 2015 · Writer Shashi Deshpande Friday resigned from the Sahitya Akademi General Council, saying she is “deeply distressed by the silence of the Akademi on the murder of Professor M M Kalburgi”. Kalburgi, a Kannada writer, scholar and winner of the Akademi award, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Dharwad in August.
Shashi Deshpande has 39 books on Goodreads with 11943 ratings. Shashi Deshpande’s most popular book is That Long Silence.
Shashi Deshpande was born in 1938. She was the daughter of a famous dramatist and writer, Shriranga. She received an English education at a protestant mission school in Karnataka.
