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.
Biography
She was born on 19 august 1938 in Dharwad, Karnataka, the second daughter of the Kannada dramatist and writer Adya Rangacharya and Sharada Adya. She was educated in Bombay (now Mumbai) and Bangalore. Deshpande has degrees in Economics and Law. In Mumbai, she studied journalism at the Vidya Bhavan and worked for a few months as a journalist for the magazine 'Onlooker'.
She published her first collection of short stories in 1978, and her first novel, 'The Dark Holds No Terror', in 1980. She won the Sahitya Akademi Award 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.
Deshpande has written four children’s books, a number of short stories, thirteen novels, and an essay collection entitled Writing from the Margin and Other Essays.
On 9 December, 2015, she resigned from her position in the Sahitya Akademi's general council and returned her Sahitya Akademi award. In doing so, she joined a broader protest by other writers against the Akademi's perceived inaction and silence on the murder of M. M. Kalburgi.
On 6 December, 2018, during her inaugural address of the ninth edition of the Goa Arts and Literature Festival (GALF), Deshpande urged Indians to think about the consequences of wanting a Hindu nation, and reminded those present of the violence and carnage that had been caused by the India-Pakistan partition.
Selected bibliography
- The Dark Holds No Terrors, Penguin Books India (1980), ISBN 0-14-014598-2
- If I Die Today (1982)
- Come Up and Be Dead (1983)
- Roots and Shadows (1983)
- That Long Silence, Penguin (paperback 1989), ISBN 0-14-012723-2
- The Intrusion and Other Stories (1993)
- A Matter of Time, The Feminist Press at CUNY (1996), ISBN 1-55861-264-5
- The Binding Vine, The Feminist Press at CUNY (2002), ISBN 1-55861-402-8
- Small Remedies, Penguin India (2000), ISBN 978-0-14-029487-3
- Moving On, Penguin Books India (2004), ISBN 978-0-670-05781-8
- In the Country of Deceit, Penguin/Viking (2008), ISBN 978-0-670-08198-1
- Shadow Play, Aleph (2013), ISBN 978-9-382-27719-4
- Strangers to Ourselves, HarperCollins (2015), ISBN 978-9-351-77634-5
- Children's books
- A Summer Adventure
- The Hidden Treasure
- The Only Witness
- The Narayanpur Incident
Memoir
- Listen to Me
Collected Essays
- Writing from the Margin & Other Essays, Penguin (2003), ISBN 0-67-004996-4
References
- "Sharada Adya Rangacharya dead". Times of India. Retrieved 7 January 2002.
- T. M. J. Indra Mohan (2004). Shashi Deshpande: A Critical Spectrum. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. p. 191. ISBN 978-8126903092.
- SAWNET: Bookshelf: Shashi Deshpande
- "Untitled Page".
- "Here's the shortlist". The Hindu. 5 October 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
- Raman, Anuradha (9 October 2015). "After Sashi Deshpande steps down, Akademi explains its silence". The Hindu. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
- "Hope idea of Hindutva is rejected in upcoming polls: Author who returned Sahitya Award". The Goan Everyday. 7 December 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
- Joseph, Margaret Paul. Jasmine on a String: A survey of Women in India Writing Fiction in English
- Datta, Sudipta (12 January 2019). "'Listen to Me' review: A place of her own". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
External links
Categories:
- 1938 births
- Indian women novelists
- Novelists from Karnataka
- Indian women children's writers
- Indian children's writers
- Living people
- Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in English
- People from Dharwad
- English-language writers from India
- 20th-century Indian novelists
- Women writers from Karnataka
- 20th-century Indian women writers