Shashi Deshpande was born in 1938. She was the daughter of a famous dramatist and writer, Shriranga.
She received an English education at a protestant mission school in Karnataka. As a schoolgirl, she read the great British classical novels in English, and particularly liked the work of Jane Austen.
She studied Economics in Bombay and graduated in Law from Bangalore. She later received an MA in English Literature.
"I never decided that I was going to become a writer, it was never a conscious decision. I got married, I had no definite career, I had 2 children. I was restless with being just a housewife and mother, I was looking for a job. Then we were in England for a year, my husband was a doctor. I was very isolated there because he was at work all day and I had these 2 children and no friends so then we returned and he said 'why don't you write about our year there?'. Then I joined a journalism course. I loved writing, I felt at home with it…so I think in one way I stumbled into it but I really think of it this way as writing was something w •
Shashi Deshpande
Indian writer (born 1938)
Shashi Deshpande (born 1938) is an Indian novelist. She is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Padma Shri Award in 1990 and 2009 respectively.
Biography
She was born on 19 august 1938 in Dharwad, Karnataka, the second daughter of the Kannada dramatist and writer Adya Rangacharya and Sharada Adya.[1][2] She was educated in Bombay (now Mumbai) and Bangalore. Deshpande has degrees in Economics and Law. In Mumbai, she studied journalism at the Vidya Bhavan and worked for a few months as a journalist for the magazine 'Onlooker'.[3]
She published her first collection of short stories in 1978, and her first novel, 'The Dark Holds No Terror', in 1980. She won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the novel That Long Silence in 1990 and the Padma Shri award in 2009.[4] Her novel Shadow Play was shortlisted for The Hindu Literary Prize in 2014.[5]
Deshpande has written four children’s books, a number of short stories, thirteen novels, and an essay collection entitled W •
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Introduction of Shashi Deshpande
Shashi Deshpande is a distinguished contemporary Indian literature novelist in English, born in Dharwad, Karnataka, as the daughter of the renowned Kannada dramatics and Sanskrit scholar, Adya Rangachatya. Deshpande’s novels mainly focus on women belonging to the Indian middle class and their inner world. Her novels present a social world of relationships, where women search for themselves and their central relationships.
Personal LifeShashi Deshpande
Novelist, Playwright, Short-Story writer, Feminist and women writer Shashi Deshpande was born on 19 August 1938 in Dharwad, Karnataka, the second daughter of her father Adya Rangachatya and Sarada Adya. She studied in Mumbai and Bangalore and got degrees in Economics and Law. She also studied journalism at the Vidya Bhavan, Mumbai and worked as a journalist for the m