Indu Sundaresan

Indu Sundaresan is an Indian-American author of historical fiction.[2]

Indu Sundaresan
Born
India
NationalityAmerican [1]
OccupationWriter
Known forThe Taj Triology

Personal life

She was born and raised in India as the daughter of an Indian Air Force pilot,[3] Group Captain R. Sundaresan,[3] who died in a crash while on duty. Her mother's name is Madhuram Sundaresan.[3] The family then moved to Bangalore, where she collected books eagerly. She then migrated to the United States for graduate studies at the University of Delaware. She has an MS in operations research and an MA in economics.[3] She is married and lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband and daughter.[4]

Career

Her first novel The Twentieth Wife is about how a young widow named Mehrunissa, daughter of Persian refugees and wife of an Afghan commander, becomes Empress of the Mughal Empire under the name of Nur Jahan.[5] Her second novel The Feast of Roses is the sequel to The Twentieth Wife. 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. </ref>

Her short fiction has appeared in The Vincent Brothers Review and on iVillage.com.

Awards

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
  1. "She lives in Seattle, Washington" Indu Sundaresan's website.
  2. "Do you know what we read last year?" The Hindu.
  3. "Indu Sundaresan: Biography". www.indusundaresan.com. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  4. "About". Retrieved 2019-06-10.
  5. "Mesmerised by the Mughal era" The Hindu.
  6. "About". indusundaresan.com. Retrieved 2020-07-18.


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