Shashi Deshpande

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Shashi Deshpande (b.1938)She is a daughter of a famouse dramatist and writer Shriranga. Shashi Deshpande is an award-winning Indian novelist. She published her first collection of short stories in 1978, and her first novel in 1980. She is a winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award for the novel That Long Silence. Her works also include children's books.

[edit] Books

Her books include:

• The Binding Vine, The Feminist Press at CUNY (2002), ISBN 1-55861-402-8
• Matter of Time, The Feminist Press at CUNY (2001), ISBN 1-55861-264-5
• That Long Silence, Penguin (paperback 1989), ISBN 0-14-012723-2

[edit] External links

• Feature on Women Writers, BBC World Service
• Review of 3 children's novels, The Hindu, Oct 13, 2006