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Vol.I, Issue. IV, JAN 2013

An International Refereed & Indexed Journal in Arts, Commerce & Education

The Contribution of Post Colonial Indian Women Writers in Literalture

Smt. Gawali M.B., Dept. of English, Shivaji Mahavidyalaya, Hingoli.

Received: 13/11/2012 Reviewed: 15/11/2012 Accepted: 17/11/2012

Research Paper in English

Abstract

In this paper an attempt has been made to review the contribution of post-colonial Indian women writers in English Literature. These women writers have been highly acclaimed and have also been the recipients of prestigious literary prizes. In almost all the literatures of the world, the women writers are transcending the boundaries and making their presence felt on the international stage.In case of feminism, in every field and level of education now the women are seen. And they are now found in every occupation and earning as men for their Livelihood. In political and social activities also, their participation is increasing. In each and every field may be agriculture, science, Technology, social or political field, Management and Industries, Sports or cultural activities, Literature she proves her ability.

The present paper focuses the contribution also for children. She wrote some critical of Indian women writers in Literature. So, studies also. we will take a review of it. Mahashweta Devi, born in a , the daughter middle class Bengali family in 1926 in of the famous kannada dramatist and Dacca. Her work includes Hajar Churashir Sanskrit scholar, sriranga. She was born in Ma, Choti Munda evam Tar Tir, Tutu Mir. Dharwad, Karnataka. She is a winner of She gets the awards like the Award for the novel in 2006, Ramon Magsaysay Award 1997, ‘That Long Silence’ and the Nanjangud . Thirumalamba award. In her career she was born in wrote 8 novels. Some collection of short- in 1965. She has written a novel ‘A spoke stories including Legacy, play she writes

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An International Refereed & Indexed Journal in Arts, Commerce & Education in the wheel’ and now working on her born in 1907, second novel. was one of the most famous modern Hindi poets. Widely regarded as the modern Jhumpa Lahiri is a contemporary meera. She won the Jnanpith award in Indian American author was born in 1982. Her creative talents and sharp England in 1967. She has written intellect soon earned her a prominat place collection of short stories. She got the in Hindi Literary world. She was honoured Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2000. The by Gyanpeeth, award. Her Namesake is her famous novel, transferred Literary work includes prose and poetry later in to a movie by Mira Nair she get so and short stories. many awards in her life. She has written full texts also. Suniti Namjoshi bornin 1941, is an Indian writer and poet. she has written , an Indian several collection of fables, pretry and feminist and historian. She is the Director fantasy fiction, children’s fiction. and Co-founder of Kali for women, ’s first feminist publishing house. was born Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni born in Ambala India in 1952. She writes in 1956 in Kolkata an Indian- American several articles for newspepers. author, poet. Her writing includes 12 novels, 3 poetry and 30 anthologies. She Lalitha Lenin born in 1946, received so many awards for her literary Thrithalloor, Thrissur district at renowned work including PEN Oakland Award. poet in . She has been contributing poems, short stories and Romila Thaper born in 1931 is an articles to main-stream periodicals since Indian historian whose principal area of 1971. She also writes for television study is Ancient India. Her Literary work programmes. include, Books, Anthologies, Paper, articles and chapters. Krupabai satthianadhan, though not post-colonial but the first Indian Lalitambika Antarjanam born in women to write in English.And also the 1909, kottarakara, , is an author in first woman novelist in English from India. Malyalam. Her work consists of nine volumes of short-stories, six collection of

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An International Refereed & Indexed Journal in Arts, Commerce & Education poems, two books for children and a novel Literary work consists of novels and short (1980) which won the Kerala stories also. for the best Rimi B Chatterjee born in Belfast Literary work of that year. in 1969. She contributed to the prooess of Suzanna bornin translating into English. She is a very good 1961, an Indian novelist, writer and translator. She has written a few novels activist.she won the Booker prize in 1997 and translations. for her first novel, ‘The God of small Anjana Verma, a noted Hindi Things’ and in 2002, the Lannan Cultural poet. In the year 1992, she was given the Freedom Prize. She has written nearabout ‘sahityakaar Raman Award’. Her works nine books. include poems, essays, short stories and born in 1946, the songs. chief editor of Hindustan, a Hindi Anita Desaiborn in 1937 is an periodical Daughter of the Hindi novelist Indian novelist. She has been short listed shivani. She has written few short stories for the Booker prize three times. Her as well as novels. She was the editor of the daughter, the author Kiran Desai, is the popular women’s magazine vama from winner of the 2006 Booker prize. Her 1984-87. name is Anita Mazumdar she has written Kamala Markandaya (born in near about 10 novels and short stories. Am 1924, d. 2004) was a pseudonym used by ong which ‘clear Light of Day’, ‘In Kamala purnaiya Taylor, an Indian Custody,’ ‘Fasting, Feasting’ are novelist and journalist. She has written 10 remarkable one. novels among which Nectar in a sieve and Sooni Taraporevala born in 1957, A Silence of Desire are remarkable one. is an internationally acclaimed Shobha De born in 1947 in screenwriter and photographer. She is best Maharashtra, is an Indian columnist and known as the screen writer of Mississippi novelist often called India’s Jackie Collins. Masala, The Namesake and Her name is shobha Rajadhyaksha. Her oscarnominated Salaam Bombay, all

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An International Refereed & Indexed Journal in Arts, Commerce & Education directed by Mira Nair. Her Filmography critic and theorist. Best known for the consists of nearabout seven films. article “Can the Subattern speak?”.Which is considesed a founding text of post Bharti Mukherjee born in 1940 in colonialism.A good translator also. A Calcutta, is an award- winning. Indian prolific scholar, she travels widely and born American writer. She had written 9 gives lectures around the world. She works novels, memoir and Non-fiction and gets on international feminism. National Book Critics Circle Award. Ismat chughtai born in 1915, was Shama Zaidi born in 1938 at an eminent Indian Urdu writer. She was Rampur, Uttar Pradesh.India, is an Indian born in Uttar Pradesh. Ismat’s work stands writer, costume designer, art director, for the birth of a revolutionary feminist theatre person, art critic and documentary and aesthetics in twentieth century Urdu filmmaker. literature. She is considered one of the more prolific writers of Urdu short stories. Eunice De Souza born in 1940 is a She gets so many awards, in duding contemporary Indian English language national awards. poet and novelist. Aside from poetry and fiction, De Souza has edited numerous Sujata Bhatt born in 1956, in anthologies and collections and writes a Ahmedabad, is an Indianpoet native weekly column for the Mirror. speaker of Gujarati. She has written many poems and a good translator. Her poems is an Indian poet have appeared in various journals in the activist, born in 1934, who has played United Kingdom, Ireland, United States active role in environmental and feminist and Canada. She gets various awards for movements in kerala. She formed her poetry, including commonwealth Abhaygrama, a home for destitute women poetry prize (Asia). and a day-care centre for the mentally ill. She had written 9 novels. She gets various Anjana Appachana is a novelist awards including Padmashri. of Indian origin. She has written a book of short stories titled Incantations and a novel Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak was Listening Now. born in 1942, in Calcutta, is a literary

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Kamala Bhatt is India’s premier also. she is the recipient of the CNN blogger and India’s first poducaster. Also a Young Journalist Award in 2006. writer and researcher. She is a featured born in podcaster contributor to the India Tech Kolkata, a Bengali writer from India. She feature on Silicon valleys Pod Tech. Net. has published more than 80 books in is a popular Indian- Bengali, poetry, novels short stories, plays, English writer was born in Mundakotta literary criticism, personal essays, kurissi in Kerala. Her area of interest is travelogues, humour writing, translations mostty short-stories. Her books have been and children’s literature. She is a well published in several languages around the known children’s authors in Bengali for world. her fairy tales and adventure stories, where girls are the heroes. She also has written Kiran Desai born in 1971 in prize winning one act plays she has been a Chandigarh, is an Indian author. Her novel visiting professor and a visiting creative ‘The Inheritance of Loss’ won the 2006 writer at different times at several Man Booker Prize and the National Book Universities she received many awards for Critics Circle Fiction Award. She is the her contribution in creative and academic daughter of the recognized author Anita writings including president’s award Desai. Padmashree and Sahitya Academy.

Meena Alexander born in 1951, in born in 1927, is Allahabad, is a noted cross – cultural the second of the three daughters born to writer and educator. She is the author of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. She is a well numerous collections of poetry, literary regarded writer in the English language. memoirs, essays and works of literary She has written 12 novels, memoir. criticism. Her poetry Illiterate Heart won the 2002 PEN Open Book Award. Parul sheth is a prolific science writer. She has written over one thousand Sonia Faleiro born in Goa, is an articles in various newspapers and award winning Indian journalist and magazines to her credit. she has written writer, she writes short stories and novel seven books on popular science and health. Sheth is the recipient of the C.B. Sharma

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An International Refereed & Indexed Journal in Arts, Commerce & Education national award for science communicators, Sujata Madhok, is an Indian 2003. She is the Treasurer for the National activist and developmental journalist Centre for Science Communicators. specializing in women’s issues. She is secretary of the Union of journalists. Shanta shelke born in 1922 in Indapur, Pune, died in 2002, was a gifted Manjula Padmanabhan born in Marathi poetess and writer. She has been a 1953 is a play wright, comic strip artist, journalist, a professor, Composer, story children’s book author, gets award for her writer, translator, written child literature. play Harvest’ Also wrote short stories. She contributed extensively to Marathi Sharanya Manivannan born in Literature in the form of poems stories, 1985 in India, is a writer, dancer, painter, novels, character sketches, interviews, actress, photographer, journalist and critiques, introductions etc. She also activist currently working on her first helped translated English cinema and novel constellation of scars and a wrote for newspaper columns. She gets collection of poem witchcraft. various awards including Govt. of India award of excellent for song writing for her Sivasankari born in 1942, is a cinema Bhujang, Yashwantrao Chavan Tamil writer and activist, she has over 30 Pratishan Award in 2001 for her novels, 150 short stories, 13 travelogues contribution to Marathi Literature. and 2 biographies to her credit. She is also the founder of Awakened Group for born in 1943 at National Integration ( AGNI). She gets Alabol, Orissa state. She writes novels and various awards in her career. short stories in her mother-tongue Oriya. She has written 8 novels, 8 short stories, Thus women proves her ability in travelogues also. each and every field. She plays the roles of journalist, actor, dancer, photographer, Padmabhushan Nalappat poet, writer, translator, professor, officer. , born in 1909, died in She proves her existence. We can Say in 2004, a Malayali poet. She won the highest short, women in India occupy a significant literary medal in India, the saraswathi place since yore days. Though in medieval samman. She was the mother of the writer period and later they suffered a lot on Kamala Das.

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An International Refereed & Indexed Journal in Arts, Commerce & Education various counts-socio political, religious 1. Indian Women Writer by P. etc. No doubt, in the field of wit and Christina. Wisdom and literary activities women had 2. Women Empowerment And Social made great debut. Development by Choudhri Appa Rao And Sai Kumar. References :- 3. Post Colonial Women Writers, New perspectives by Sunita Sinha.

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