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Manju Kapur

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]

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

Personal life edit

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

Awards and honors edit

Works edit

  • 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 edit

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 edit

See also edit

References edit

  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.

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