Manjula Padmanabhan
Manjula Padmanabhan (born 1953) is an Indian playwright, journalist, comic strip artist, and children's book author.
Early life
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Born in Delhi to a diplomat family in 1953, she went to boarding school in her teenage years. After college she began working in publishing and media-related fields.
Career & works
She won the Greek Onassis Award for her play Harvest. An award-winning film Deham was made by Govind Nihalani based on the play.
She has written one more powerful play, Lights Out! (1984), Hidden Fires is a series of monologues. The Artist's Model (1995) and Sextet are her other works.(1996).[1]
She has also authored a collection of short stories, called Kleptomania. Her most recent book, published in 2008, is Escape.[1]
Apart from writing newspaper columns she created comic strips. She created Suki, an Indian comic character, which was serialized as a strip in the The Sunday Observer.[2] Before 1997 (the year her play Harvest was staged) she was better known as cartoonist and had a daily cartoon strip in The Pioneer newspaper.
As playwright
- 1984 - "Lights Out"
- 2003. Harvest. London: Aurora Metro Books
As author and illustrator
- 2013. Three Virgins and Other Stories New Delhi, India: Zubaan Books.
- 2015. Island of Lost Girls. Hachette.
- 2011. I am different! Can you find me? Watertown, Mass: Charlesbridge Pub.
- 2008. Escape. Hachette.
- 2005. Unprincess! New Delhi: Puffin Books.
- 1986. A Visit to the City Market New Delhi: National Book Trust
- 2003. Mouse Attack
As Illustrator
- Baig, Tara Ali, and Manjula Padmanabhan. 1979. Indrani and the enchanted jungle. New Delhi: Thomson Press (India) Ltd.
- Maithily Jagannathan and Manjula Padmanabhan. 1984. Droopy dragon. New Delhi: Thomson Press.
Comic Strips
- 2005. Double talk. New Delhi: Penguin Books.
References
- ^ a b Matthan, Ayesha (3 January 2009). "Is it the great escape?". The Hindu. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
- ^ Moddie, Mandira (28 August 2005). "Antics of Suki". The Hindu. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
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