Kamala Markandaya

Kamala Markandaya (1 January 1924 – 16 May 2004)[1] was a pseudonym used by Kamala Purnaiya Taylor, an Indian novelist and journalist. She has been called "one of the most important Indian novelists writing in English".[2]

Kamala Markandaya
BornKamala Purnaiya
(1924-01-01)1 January 1924
Mysore, India
Died16 May 2004(2004-05-16) (aged 80)
OccupationNovelist and journalist
Alma materMadras University

Life

Markandaya was born into an upper-middle-class Brahmin family.[2] A native of Mysore, India, Markandaya was a graduate of Madras University, and afterwards published several short stories in Indian newspapers. After India declared its independence, Markandaya moved to Britain, though she still labelled herself an Indian expatriate long afterwards.

Known for writing about culture clash between Indian urban and rural societies, Markandaya's first published novel, Nectar in a Sieve, was a bestseller and cited as an American Library Association Notable Book in 1955. Her other novels include Some Inner Fury (1955), A Silence of Desire (1960), Possession (1963), A Handful of Rice (1966), The Nowhere Man (1972), Two Virgins (1973), The Golden Honeycomb (1977), and Pleasure City (1982/1983).

Markandaya died aged 80 on 16 May 2004.

Works
  • Nectar in a Sieve, New York: John Day, 1954
  • Some Inner Fury, New York: New American Library, 1956
  • A Silence of Desire, New York: John Day, 1960
  • Possession; a novel, New York: John Day, 1963
  • A Handful of Rice, New York: John Day, 1966
  • The Coffer Dams, New York: John Day, 1969
  • The Nowhere Man, London: Allen Lane, 1972
  • Two Virgins, New York: John Day, 1973
  • The Golden Honeycomb, New York: Crowell, 1977
  • Pleasure City, London: Chatto and Windus, 1982. Published in the United States under the title Shalimar.
  • Bombay Tiger, New Delhi: Penguin, 2008. (Posthumously published.)

Literary criticism
  • Almeida, Rochelle. Originality and Imitation: Indianness in the Novels of Kamala Markandaya. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2000.
  • Jha, Rekha. The Novels of Kamala Markandaya and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: A Study in East-West Encounter. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1990.
  • Joseph, Margaret P. Kamala Markandaya, Indian Writers Series, N. Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann, 1980.
  • Krishna Rao, A. V. The Indo-Anglian Novel and Changing Tradition: A Study of the Novels of Mulk Raj Anad, Kamala Markandaya, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao, 1930–64. Mysore: 1972.
  • Parameswaran, Uma. Kamala Markandaya. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2000.
  • Shrivastava, Manish. "Conflicts of Sensibility in Kamala Markandaya's A Silence of Desire". Synthesis: Indian Journal of English Literature and Language. vol.1, no.1.
  • Singh, Indu. "The Feminist Approach in Kamala Markandaya's Novels with Special Reference to Nectar in a Sieve", Synthesis: Indian Journal of English Literature and Language, vol. 1, no. 1.

See also

References
  1. "Kamala Markandaya" at Goodreads.
  2. Marchionni, Paola (2002). "Markandaya, Kamala". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. pp. 192–3. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.
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