Women writers
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Women AutHer Awards announces winners, Marathi writer Urmila Pawar gets Lifetime Achievement Award
Scroll Staff
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This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings
Gayathri Prabhu
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Winners of 2025 Women AutHer Awards announced in fiction, nonfiction, debut, children’s categories
Scroll Staff
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How three 18th century ‘deviant mothers’ defied social norms in their novel writing
Aditi Upmanyu, The Conversation
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From Padmavati Devi Phukanani to Indira Goswami, women have revolutionised Assamese literature
Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty
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Interview: ‘Not seeing dyslexic, lesbian women thriving in India made it hard to see myself survive’
Sharif Rangnekar
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‘I turned my impatience into something useful’: Ruth Ozeki, winner of 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Sayari Debnath
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‘Thrice marginalised’: Writer Nazia Akhtar on Urdu women writers of Hyderabad
Mallik Thatipalli
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‘Bibi’s Room’ is a crucial step towards acknowledging Urdu women writers of 20th century Hyderabad
Saloni Sharma
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‘Goodreads’ readers #ReadWomen. Why English departments should do the same
Karen Bourrier, The Conversation
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Why has Chimamanda Adichie’s essay on social media culture sparked a controversy?
Akanksha Mishra
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‘Of her time, yet timeless’: Why Mannu Bhandari’s stories must be read now and always
Namita Gokhale
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Things are stacked against women’s writing. Can a new prize for women writers really change things?
Shashi Deshpande
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Eight must-read novels: The enduring contributions of African American women writers
Nancy Kang, The Conversation
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Watch: 2019 Women's Prize winner Tayari Jones on why it took her six years to complete her novel
Scroll Staff
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‘Waiting’: A short story collection shows us the inner lives of women but doesn’t ask new questions
Jenny Bhatt
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‘My need to speak openly won out’: Why this author wrote a book on being a ‘besharam’ Indian woman
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Did Ernest Hemingway’s famous writing style come from the work of a censored female author?
Cynthia Wachtell, The Conversation
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Novelist Shashi Deshpande on the difficulties of being a woman who writes (or, a ‘woman writer’)
Shashi Deshpande
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Before #MeToo, there was #BeCareful – and that applied to women who wanted to write books
K Srilata