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Kamala Markandaya (23 June 1924 – 16 May 2004), pseudonym of Kamala Purnaiya, married name Kamala Taylor, was a British Indian novelist and journalist. She has been called "one of the most important Indian novelists writing in English ".
May 12, 2024 · Kamala Markandaya (born 1924, Chimakurti, India—died May 16, 2004, London, England) was an Indian novelist whose works concern the struggles of contemporary Indians with conflicting Eastern and Western values. A Brahman, Markandaya studied at the University of Madras, then worked as a journalist.
May 28, 2004 · Kamala Markandaya, the novelist who helped forge the image of India for American readers in schools and book clubs from the 1950's through the...
The Nowhere Man is a 1972 English-language novel by Kamala Markandaya. It was Markandaya's seventh novel, and her own favourite. The novel is a tragedy of alienation, centred on the racism experienced by an elderly Brahmin, Srinivas, who has lived in London for decades.
Kamala Markandaya (mahr-kahn-DAH-yah), the pseudonym of Kamala Purnaiya Taylor, one of the most talented woman writers of Indian fiction in English, was born to a well-connected Brahman...
Kamala Markandaya is one of India's best-known novelists. The fact that her body of work, especially the novel The Nowhere Man, foreshadowed the explosion of published works by South Asian writers over the last several decades makes her novels required reading for anyone interested in Indian culture.
In her lifetime, Kamala Markandaya published ten novels, all dealing with post-colonial themes in modern India. She is most famous for her novel Nectar in a Sieve, which was her third novel written, but the first novel published. Nectar in a Sieve became a bestseller in March, 1955, earning her over $100,000 in prizes.
Nov 6, 2018 · November 6, 2018. Feminize Your Canon. Our monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors. In 1956, the then-famous Indian novelist Kamala Markandaya was asked if she might set a book in England, where she lived with her British husband.
May 16, 2004 · Known for writing about culture clash between Indian urban and rural societies, Markandaya's first published novel, Nectar in a Sieve, was a bestseller and cited as an American Library Association Notable Book in 1955.
Markandaya, Kamala 1924–2004. [A pseudonym] (Kamala Purnaiya Taylor) PERSONAL: Born 1924, in India; died of kidney failure, May 16, 2004, in London, England; married Bertrand Taylor; children: Kim (daughter). Education: Attended University of Madras. Religion: Hindu-Brahmin.
