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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


2011: DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, short-list, The Immigrant
1999: Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia, Difficult Daughters




Works


Difficult Daughters, Penguin India, 1998; Faber and Faber, 1998, ISBN 978-0-571-19289-2
A Married Woman, India Ink, 2003; Faber and Faber, 2003, ISBN 978-0-571-21568-3
Home, Random House India, 2006, ISBN 978-81-8400-000-9; Faber and Faber, 2006, ISBN 978-0-571-22841-6
The Immigrant, Random House, India, 2008, ISBN 978-81-8400-048-1; Faber And Faber, 2009, ISBN 978-0-571-24407-2
Custody, Faber & Faber, 2011, ISBN 978-0-571-27402-4
Shaping the World: Women Writers on Themselves, ed. Manju Kapur, Hay House India, 2014.
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:

Yeh Hai Mohabbatein on Star Plus in Hindi under Ekta Kapoor's production house Balaji Telefilms.
Nakalat Saare Ghadle on Star Pravah in Marathi under Swapnil Joshi Productions.
Pranayam on Asianet in Malayalam under Sree Saran Productions.
Kalyanam Mudhal Kadhal Varai on Star Vijay in Tamil.
Avanu Mathe Shravani on Asianet Suvarna in Kannada.
Manasupalik Mouna Geetham on Maa in Telugu.
Mon Niye Kachakachi on Star Jalsha in Bengali.
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


Ruth Scurr (16 April 2009). "The Immigrant by Manju Kapur: review". The Telegraph.
Arifa Akbar (11 March 2011). "Custody by Manju Kapur". The Independent.
Mithu Banerji (27 February 2011). "Custody by Manju Kapur – review". The Observer.




See also


List of Indian writers




References






= Further reading

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Nitonde, Rohidas. In Search of a Feminist Writer, PartridgeIndia, Bloomington, 2014.http://www.flipkart.com/search?q=rohidas+nitonde&as=on&as-show=on&otracker=start&as-pos=1_q https://www.amazon.in/Search-Feminist-Writer-Rohidas-Nitonde/dp/1482833913/ref=la_B00O66VNAK_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1443238147&sr=1-1
Nitonde, Rohidas. Manju Kapur Bibliography, Google Play Book, 2015. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267928118_Manju_Kapur_A_Bibliography
Askok Kumar, ed., Novels of Manju Kapur: A Feministic Study, Sarup and Sons, New Delhi, 2010. ISBN 978-81-7625-990-3.
Ram Sharma, Rise New Woman: Novels of Manju Kapur, Manglam Publications, Delhi, 2013. ISBN 978-93-81142-77-6.
Kalpana Rajput, Remapping the Female Map: Jhumpa Lahiri and Manju Kapur, Yking Books, Jaipur, 2012.




External links


"A meeting with Manju Kapur", Jabberwock, 9 August 2008
"Manju Kapur", Sawnet
Miranda House Faculty
Amba Dalmia Center named in honour of the late daughter of Manju Kapur
"Family Portraits" Telegraph India, Sunday, 21 September 2008
"Internationalizing the University"
"Official Website"

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