Indu Sundaresan
Indu Sundaresan | |
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| Born | India |
| Nationality | American [1] |
| Education | University of Delaware (MS, MA) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Known for | The Taj Trilogy |
Indu Sundaresan is an Indian-American author of historical fiction.[2]
Personal life
She was born and raised in India as the daughter of an
Career
Her first novel The Twentieth Wife is about how a young widow named
Her second novel The Feast of Roses is the sequel to The Twentieth Wife and focuses on Nur Jahan exerting authority granted by her husband Jahangir during the sixteen years of her marriage to the emperor.
Shadow Princess is the third novel in the Taj trilogy set after the succession of
She is also the author of The Splendor of Silence, historical fiction set in a fictional Indian princely state just before Indian independence in 1947. Her work has been translated into some 23 languages worldwide.[7]
Her short fiction has appeared in The Vincent Brothers Review and on iVillage.com.[8]
Awards
- Washington State Book Award for The Twentieth Wife in 2003.[4]
- Light of India award for Excellence in Literature[9]
Works
- Taj Mahal trilogy
- Twentieth Wife (2002)
- The Feast of Roses (2003)
- Shadow Princess (2010)
- Other
- The Splendour of Silence (2006)
- In the Convent of Little Flowers (2008)
- The Mountain of Light (2013)
References
- ^ "She lives in Seattle, Washington" Indu Sundaresan's website.
- ^ "Do you know what we read last year?" The Hindu.
- ^ a b c d "Indu Sundaresan: Biography". www.indusundaresan.com. Archived from the original on 27 May 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ a b "About". Retrieved 2019-06-10.
- ^ "Mesmerised by the Mughal era" The Hindu.
- ^ "Entranced by the past" The Hindu
- ^ "About". Retrieved 3 March 2021.
- ^ "The Vincent Brothers Review Issue #19—Home". The Vincent Brothers Review Literary Magazine. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
- ^ "About". indusundaresan.com. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
External links
- A Reader and Writer Be at the Wayback Machine (archived September 6, 2015), essay by the author
- "An Interview with Novelist Indu Sundaresan" Archived 2008-05-07 at the Wayback Machine California Literary Review, 3 April 2007.
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