Githa Hariharan

Githa Hariharan (born 1954) is an Indian author and editor based in New Delhi. Her first novel, The Thousand Faces of Night, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1993.

Early life

Hariharan was born in Coimbatore and grew up in Bombay and Manila. She obtained a BA (in English) from Bombay University and a MA (in Communications) from Fairfield University.

Career

Hariharan first worked in the Public Broadcasting System in New York and then with a publishing firm as an editor in India.^[1] She currently works as a freelance editor.^[2]

In her personal life, she, along with her husband, won the right to have the children named after her (instead of carrying the father's name); in this famous case argued by Indira Jaising, the Supreme Court agreed that the mother was also a "natural guardian" of the child.Template:AIR 1999, 2. SCC 228

Bibliography

Author

• The Winning Team, Illustrator Taposhi Ghoshal, Rupa & Co., 2004, ISBN 978-81-291-0570-7
• In Times of Siege. Pantheon Books. 2003. ISBN 978-0-375-42239-3. ; Random House Digital, Inc., 2004, ISBN 978-1-4000-3337-9
• When Dreams Travel, Picador, 1999, ISBN 978-0-330-37236-7; Penguin Group Australia, 2008, ISBN 978-0-14-320428-2
• The Ghosts of Vasu Master, Viking, Penguin Books India, 1994; Penguin Group, 1998, ISBN 978-0-14-024724-4
• The Art of Dying, Penguin Books, 1993, ISBN 978-0-14-023339-1
• The Thousand Faces of Night, Penguin Books, 1992; Women's Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-7043-4465-5
• Fugitive Histories, Penguin Group, 2009, ISBN 978-0-670-08217-9

Editor

• A Southern Harvest, Kath, 1993, ISBN 978-81-85586-10-6
• Sorry, Best Friend!, Illustrated Ranjan De, Tulika Publishers, 1997, ISBN 978-81-86895-00-9

References

Sources

• Kader Aki (2007). Mythology and Reality in Githa Hariharan's "The Thousand Faces of Night". GRIN Verlag. ISBN 978-3-638-76601-2. 

External links

• Official website