Shaping the World: Women Writers on Themselves addresses these very questions. The array of formidable writers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka – acclaimed both nationally and internationally – share their insecurities and triumphs that occurred on their journeys to becoming writers. Was it easy? The answer is No. Many of them were closet writers, not sharing their writings with the world. Writing was no career, they were told. But they persevered. And they wrote. Because they had to. Because it was their calling. The writers reveal their inspirations: be it another writer, a personal tragedy, or triumph, a fascination with the English language, or a passion for putting pen to paper and finding wings. Shaping the World: Women Writers on Themselves is an anthology of intimate, honest and brave accounts that will provide the reader with an insight into the realm of writing: its adventurous terrain of highs and lows and how it continues to shape these 24 women and the world we all inhabit.
The contributors are -
Ameena Hussein, Shashi Deshpande, Shinie Antony, Mishi Saran, Anjum Hasan, Tania James, Tishani Doshi, Ru Freeman, Bina Shah, Jaishree Misra, Anita Nair, Susan Viswanathan, Kavery Nambisan, Lavanya Sankaran, Bapsi Sidhwa, Manju Kapur, Meira Chand, Janice Pariat, Moni Mohsin, Namita Devidayal, Maniza Naqvi
About The Author:
Manju Kapur is the author of four novels. Her first, Difficult Daughters, won the Commonwealth Prize for First Novels (Eurasia Section) and was a number one bestseller in India. Her second novel A Married Woman was called fluent and witty in the Independent, while her third, Home, was described as glistening with detail and emotional acuity in the Sunday Times. Her most recent novel, The Immigrant, has been long-listed for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. She lives in New Delhi.
