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Meena Kandasamy

Ilavenil Meena Kandasamy is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and activist who is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   The Gypsy Goddess (2014)
   When I Hit You (2017)
   The Suspicious Husband (2021)

Collections

   #thispoemwillprovokeyou (poems) (2015)
   The Book Of Desire (poems) (2023)
   Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You (poems) (2023)

Novellas and Short Stories

Exquisite Cadavers (2019)

Non fiction

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Meena Kandasamy recommends

Daisy & Woolf (2022)
Michelle Cahill
"Michelle Cahill deploys poetry and history in the most powerful manner possible to write back to Virginia Woolf, and expose the colonial gaze that did not (does not) acknowledge the full humanity of others. This novel will be to Mrs Dalloway what Wide Sargasso Sea was to Jane Eyre."

little scratch (2020)
Rebecca Watson
"Rebecca Watson's little scratch voraciously captures our life... Watson uses language with a sniper's precision to target and capture the million little re-calibrations of the self that a young woman has to undertake in order to go from one day to the next. . . It is a story that is urgent. It is a story that needs to be told."

The Unseeing Idol of Light (2018)
K R Meera
"Engrossing and forensic, rich in complexity and intense in its sadness."

Anthologies containing stories by Meena Kandasamy

The Moment of Change (2012)
edited by
R B Lemberg

Awards

	Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2018) : When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
	Women's Prize For Fiction Best Novel nominee (2018) : When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife

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