Malathi Rao
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Malathi Rao is an India
n writer. She won the Central Sahitya Akademi award
for her English language novel Disorderly Women in 2007. Her novel Disorderly Women is a story of four Brahmin women in India (pre-independence) who struggle to break the barriers built around them by society. Malathi Rao has written three novels, three collections of short stories and authored few newspaper articles. Rao's next novel is Inquisition. It is a story of women on a university campus. She has studied English literature
and taught English at Vijaya College,Bangalore when Prof. V.T Srinivasan, a famous educationist was Principal of that college and at Delhi College. Her native language is Kannada
. She currently lives in Bangalore.
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n writer. She won the Central Sahitya Akademi award
Sahitya Akademi Award
Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of outstanding works in one of the following twenty-four major Indian languagesAssamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,...
for her English language novel Disorderly Women in 2007. Her novel Disorderly Women is a story of four Brahmin women in India (pre-independence) who struggle to break the barriers built around them by society. Malathi Rao has written three novels, three collections of short stories and authored few newspaper articles. Rao's next novel is Inquisition. It is a story of women on a university campus. She has studied English literature
English literature
English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....
and taught English at Vijaya College,Bangalore when Prof. V.T Srinivasan, a famous educationist was Principal of that college and at Delhi College. Her native language is Kannada
Kannada language
Kannada or , is a language spoken in India predominantly in the state of Karnataka. Kannada, whose native speakers are called Kannadigas and number roughly 50 million, is one of the 30 most spoken languages in the world...
. She currently lives in Bangalore.
Works
- The Bridge (novel), Chanakya Publications (Delhi, India), 1990
- Disorderly Women (novel), Dronequill Publishers (Bangalore, India), 2005
- Three collections of short stories
- Inquisition (upcoming novel)