Kalpana Swaminathan
Kalpana Swaminathan (born 1956) is an Indian writer from Mumbai. She also writes with Ishrat Syed as Kalpish Ratna. Swaminathan and Syed are both surgeons.[1][2] Swaminathan won the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Award (Fiction) for Venus Crossing: Twelve Stories of Transit.
Bibliography
- 1993: The True Adventures of Prince Teentang
- 1994: Dattatray's Dinosaur and Other Stories
- 1997: Cryptic Death
- 2000: Ordinary Mr Pai Two Urban Fairy Tales
- 2002: The Weekday Sisters
- 2002: Gavial Avial
- 2003: Ambrosia for Afters
- 2003: Jaldi's Friends
- 2006: The Page Three Murders
- 2006: Bougainvillea House
- 2007: The Gardener's Song
- 2009: Venus Crossing: Twelve Stories of Transit
- 2010: The Monochrome Madonna[3]
- 2012: I Never Knew It Was You
- 2013: The Secret Gardner
Awards and honors
- 2009: Vodafone Crossword Book Award, winner, Venus Crossing
- 2010: The Hindu Best Fiction Award, shortlist, Venus Crossing
References
- ↑ "'Surgery and writing bring us joy'". The Hindu. 26 December 2009. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
- ↑ "Whodunit?". The Hindu. 7 June 2010. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
- ↑ A crisp page turner, Deccan Herald. 28 August 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
External links
- The pleasures of re-imagining, by Nandini Nair, 'The Hindu' 6 July 2006.
- Experimental Writer, by Sitanshi Talati-Parikh, Verve Online, September 2007
- Black, White, and Grey: Exclusive interview with 'The Monochrome Madonna' author Kalpana Swaminathan, by Arun Kale, Helter Skelter Magazine, June 2010
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