Meira Chand
Meira Chand is a novelist born in London of Indian and Swiss descent.[1] After living in both Japan and India, she currently resides in Singapore, and the majority of her novels are based in Japan or India. Her novels examine cultural conflict and the position of the existential outsider.[2] In 1991, Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith adapted Chand's novel House of the Sun (1989) into a play, staged by London theatre company Tamasha and co-produced by Theatre Royal Stratford East.[3] From 2000–2002, Chand served as the chairperson for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the South Pacific and South East Asia.[2]
Bibliography
- The Gossamer Fly (1979, Ticknor and Fields) ISBN 0899190022
- Last Quadrant (1981, Ticknor and Fields) ISBN 0899190790
- The Bonsai Tree (1983, Murray) ISBN 0719540070
- The Painted Cage (1986, Century) ISBN 9780712612746
- House of the Sun (1989, Hutchinson) ISBN 0091740037
- A Choice of Evils (1996 Weidenfeld & Nicolson) ISBN 0297817434
- A Far Horizon (2001, Orion) ISBN 9780297817482
- A Different Sky (2010, Harvill Secker) ISBN 9781846553431
References
- ↑ "About Meira". meirachand.com. Meira Chand. Retrieved 18 August 2009.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "National Library Distinguished Readers". National Library Board Singapore. Retrieved 18 August 2009.
- ↑ "House of the Sun Tour Schedule". Tamasha. Retrieved 21 March 2015.