Sharanya Manivannan
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Sharanya Manivannan is a writer, dancer, painter, actress, photographer, journalist and activist. She is currently working on her first novel and a collection of poems.
Sharanya was born in India in 1985 and grew up in Sri Lanka and Malaysia. She lives in Kuala Lumpur and Chennai. She recently released a self-published chapbook of poems, Iyari. She is well-known in Malaysia for her unique bilingual (English, Tamil) writing and performances. She is well-known as the first and only writer to use both languages in Malaysia's modern underground independent writers' community.
She is critically acclaimed for her writing, garnering fans among international writers such as Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Indran Amirthanayagam, Francesca Beard, Shreekumar Varma and Laksmi Pamuntjak. She is also a blogger, and partly responsible for raising international awareness through her blog on temple demolitions in Malaysia. Her open letter to Indian PM Manmohan Singh on the issue was nominated for the 2007 Koufax Awards in the category of Best Post.
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[edit] Interviews and reviews Online:
Interview on How To Tell A Great Story.Com
Review of Manivannan's theatre performance
Review of Manivannan's theatre performance
Review of Manivannan's theatre performance
[edit] Published poetry/fiction Online:
excerpt from novel on Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore
poems on Softblow Poetry Journal
