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Manju Kapur

Manju Kapur
Born
Amritsar, Punjab, India
SpouseGun Nidhi Dalmia
Children3

Manju Kapur is an Indian novelist. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia.[1]

Personal life

She is married to Gun Nidhi Dalmia; they have three children and four grandchildren, and live in New Delhi.[2]

Awards and honors

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:

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

References

  1. ^ Anna M. M. Vetticad (15 March 1999). "Manju Kapur bags Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book". India Today. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
  2. ^ Anna Metcalfe (9 April 2011). "Small talk: Mantri kanpur lyrics of the wrld". The Financial Times.

Further reading

Quelle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manju_Kapur