Manju Kapur is an Indian novelist. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia.
Personal life
She is married to Gun Nidhi Dalmia; they have three children and four grandchildren, and live in New Delhi.
Awards and honors
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2011: DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, short-list, The Immigrant
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1999: Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia, Difficult Daughters
Works
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Difficult Daughters, Penguin India, 1998; Faber and Faber, 1998,
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A Married Woman, India Ink, 2003; Faber and Faber, 2003,
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Home, Random House India, 2006, ; Faber and Faber, 2006,
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The Immigrant, Random House, India, 2008, ; Faber And Faber, 2009,
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Custody, Faber & Faber, 2011,
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Shaping the World: Women Writers on Themselves, ed. Manju Kapur, Hay House India, 2014.
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Brothers, Penguin, UK, 2016.
Television adaptations
Manju Kapur's novel "Custody" has been the basis of daily soap operas on several Indian television channels in various languages:
Pardes Mein Hai Mera Dil, telecast on Star Plus, under Ekta Kapoor's production house Balaji Telefilms, is based on Manju Kapur's novel "The Immigrant".
The Married Woman, is a web series, under Ekta Kapoor's production and is available on AltBalaji, it is based on Manju Kapur's novel "A Married Woman".
Reviews
See also
Further reading
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Nitonde, Rohidas. In Search of a Feminist Writer
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Askok Kumar, ed., Novels of Manju Kapur: A Feministic Study, Sarup and Sons, New Delhi, 2010. .
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Ram Sharma, Rise New Woman: Novels of Manju Kapur, Manglam Publications, Delhi, 2013. .
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Kalpana Rajput, Remapping the Female Map: Jhumpa Lahiri and Manju Kapur, Yking Books, Jaipur, 2012.
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