Manju Kapur

Manju Kapur (born Amritsar, India) is an Indian novelist. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia.

She teaches English at Delhi University under the name Manjul Kapur Dalmia.

She studied and received an M.A. in 1972 from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, and an M. Phil from Delhi University.

She is married to Gun Nidhi Dalmia; they have three children and three grandchildren, and live in New Delhi.

Awards and honors

• 2011: DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, short-list, The Immigrant
• 1999: Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia, Difficult Daughters

Works

• Difficult Daughters, Penguin India, 1998; Faber and Faber, 1998, ISBN 978-0-571-19289-2
• A Married Woman, India Ink, 2003; Faber and Faber, 2003, ISBN 978-0-571-21568-3
• Home, Random House India, 2006, ISBN 978-81-8400-000-9; Faber and Faber, 2006, ISBN 978-0-571-22841-6
• The Immigrant, Random House, India, 2008, ISBN 978-81-8400-048-1; Faber And Faber, 2009, ISBN 978-0-571-24407-2
• Custody, Faber & Faber, 2011, ISBN 978-0-571-27402-4
• "Shaping the World: Women Writers on Themselves", ed. Manju Kapur, Hay House India, 2014.

Television serial

Ye Hai Mohabbatein is the daily serial telecasted on Star plus under Ekta Kapur's production house Balaji Telefilms which is based on Manju Kapur's fifth novel Custody.

Pranayam is a daily soap opera telecasted on Asianet under Sree Saran Productions which is based on Manju Kapur's fifth novel Custody.

Reviews

• Ruth Scurr (16 April 2009). "The Immigrant by Manju Kapur: review". The Telegraph.
• Arifa Akbar (11 March 2011). "Custody by Manju Kapur". The Independent.
• Mithu Banerji (27 February 2011). "Custody by Manju Kapur – review". The Observer.
• James Walton (24 February 2011). "Custody by Manju Kapur". The Daily Mail.

References

Further reading

• Nitonde, Rohidas. In Search of a Feminist Writer, PartridgeIndia, Bloomington, 2014.http://www.flipkart.com/search?q=rohidas+nitonde&as=on&as-show=on&otracker=start&as-pos=1_q http://www.amazon.in/Search-Feminist-Writer-Rohidas-Nitonde/dp/1482833913/ref=la_B00O66VNAK_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1443238147&sr=1-1
• Nitonde, Rohidas. Manju Kapur Bibliography, Google Play Book, 2015. http://www.researchgate.net/publication/267928118_Manju_Kapur_A_Bibliography
• Askok Kumar, ed., Novels of Manju Kapur: A Feministic Study, Sarup and Sons, New Delhi,2010.
• Ram Sharma, Rise New Woman: Novels of Manju Kapur, Manglam Publications, Delhi, 2013.
• Kalpana Rajput, Remapping the Female Map: Jhumpa Lahiri and Manju Kapur, Yking Books, Jaipur, 2012.

External links

• "A meeting with Manju Kapur", Jabberwock, August 9, 2008
• "Manju Kapur", Sawnet
• Miranda House Faculty
• Amba Dalmia Center named in honour of the late daughter of Manju Kapur
• "Family Portraits" Telegraph India, Sunday, September 21, 2008
• "Internationalizing the University"