Shashi Deshpande

VISA RAVINDRAN (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.1.03: Indian Writing and Culture: Post-colonial, 1947-present.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège)

Dates

Born 1938
Activity 1958-ongoing

Places

Born in India
Active in India

Activities

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Novelist
Story-writer

Resources

Deshpande's Works

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Shashi Deshpande, born in Dharwad, a small town in the state of Karnataka in Southern India, is a Sahitya Akademi award-winning novelist who writes in English. The daughter of Shriranga ,the renowned Sanskrit scholar and dramatist, she moved to Mumbai at the age of fifteen and later graduated in Economics, before moving to Bangalore where she earned a law degree. Marriage and family took up most of her time in the years that followed, though she managed a diploma in Journalism and a short stint working in a magazine. It was only in 1970 that her writing career took off, initially with short stories, now collected in several volumes. Today she is a recognized Indian voice, author of four children’s books and six novels, besides several perceptive essays, now available in a volume…

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Citation: RAVINDRAN, VISA. "Shashi Deshpande". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 February 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1242, accessed 23 November 2024.]