Abha Dawesar
Abha Dawesar (born 1 January 1974[1]) is an Indian-born novelist writing in English. Her novels include Babyji, Family Values, That Summer in Paris, and Miniplanner.[2] Her 2005 novel Babyji won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the Stonewall Book Award.
Abha Dawesar
- Born
- 1974 · New Delhi.
- Nationality
- India
- Occupation
- writer · novelist
- Education
- Harvard University
- Known for
- Babyji
- Honours
- Lambda Literary Award · Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction
- Languages
- English
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Abha Dawesar (born 1 January 1974[1]) is an Indian-born novelist writing in English. Her novels include Babyji, Family Values, That Summer in Paris, and Miniplanner.[2] Her 2005 novel Babyji won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the Stonewall Book Award.
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Abha Dawesar (born 1974) is an Indian novelist and writer. The novelist was born in New Delhi. Abha Dawesar studied at Harvard University.
Works include Babyji. Languages used include English. The novelist received Lambda Literary Award and Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction.
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Abha Dawesar was born in New Delhi. She moved to the United States to attend Harvard University, where she graduated in 1995. Before publishing her award-winning second novel, Babyji (2005), Dawesar was working at a global financial services firm in Manhattan. She quit her job to devote her time to writing.[3] Dawesar has been exhibiting photography, visual, and video art since she was a student at Harvard. Her work has been exhibited at various galleries and museums in the United States and abroad.[4] In 2010, she wrote part of the screenplay for the film Love and the Cities, directed by Rodrigo Bernardo.[5] Since 2013, Dawesar has been speaking on issues around digital technology and its effects on social behavior and experience.[6]
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She lives in New York City.[12]
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1974
Abha Dawesar born at New Delhi.
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Abha Dawesar received Lambda Literary Award and Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction.
Awards
• Fiction Fellow, New York Foundation for the Arts (2000)[7] • Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, for Babyji (2005) • Stonewall Book Award, American Library Association, for Babyji (2006)[8]
Bibliography ===== Novels =
• Miniplanner (2000) (published in India by Penguin Books under the title The Three of Us) • Babyji (2005) (winner of the Stonewall Book Award and Lambda Literary Award, 2006)[9] • That Summer in Paris (2006)[10] • Family Values (2011) • Sensorium (2012) • Madison Square Park (2016)
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• Not Found • An interview with Abha Dawesar * • Abha Dawesar: Life in the "digital now" (TEDGlobal 2013)
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- 1.Oh, Seiwoong. Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature. Infobase Publishing. 60. 2009. 9781438120881.
- 2.Rajan, Anjana. A cook in her books. The Hindu. January 12, 2011.
- 3.Kamesawaran, Shilpa. Interview: Abha Dawesar. Urban Confustions Journal. 1. Summer 2011.
- 4.Abha Dawesar. abhadawesar.com.
- 5.Nath, Dipanita. Love Bard. The Indian Express. January 20, 2011.
- 6.Abha Dawesar: How Do Our Screens Distort Our Sense of Time?. NPR.org.
- 7.New York Foundation for the Arts. New York Foundation for the Arts Directory of Art Fellows, 1985-2013. 2013.
- 8.Stonewall Book Awards List. Round Tables. 9 September 2009.
- 9.Lambda Literary. 18th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. 2006.
- 10.Reese, Jennifer. That Summer in Paris Review. Entertainment Weekly. 21 June 2006.
- 11.That Summer in Paris. Publishers Weekly. March 6, 2006.
- 12.Abha Dawesar. Contemporary Authors Online. 2007.
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