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Shashi Deshpande

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Shashi Deshpande
  • Date of Birth:
    January 1, 1938
  • Place of Birth:
    Dharwad, Karnataka, India
  • Sex:
    Female
  • Nationality:
    Indian

Family

Shashi Deshpande
  • Father:
    Shriranga

Career

Shashi Deshpande

Trivia

Shashi Deshpande
  • Has written four children’s books, a number of short stories, and nine novels, besides several perceptive essays, now available in a volume entitled Writing from the Margin and Other Essays.
  • Won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the novel 'That Long Silence' in 1990 and the Padma Shri award in 2009.
  • Published her first collection of short stories in 1978, and her first novel, 'The Dark Holds No Terror', in 1980.
  • When she was living in Mumbai she did a course on journalism at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and worked for a couple of months as a journalist for the magazine 'Onlooker'.
  • Has degrees in Economics and Law.
  • Was born in Karnataka and educated in Bombay (now Mumbai) and Bangalore.
  • Is the second daughter of famous Kannada dramatist and writer Shriranga.
  • Is an award-winning Indian novelist.

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