Manju Kapur

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Name Manju Kapur Role Novelist		Education Dalhousie University

Books Difficult daughters, Una Mujer Casada, Filhas Rebeldes, Schwierige Tochter

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Manju Kapur (born in Amritsar, India) is an Indian novelist. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia.

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She teaches English at Delhi University under the name Manjul Kapur Dalmia.

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She studied and received an M.A. in 1972 from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, and an M. Phil from Delhi University.

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

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Awards and honors

2011: DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, short-list, The Immigrant

1999: Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia, Difficult Daughters

Works

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.

Television serial

Manju Kapur's novel "Custody" has been the basis of daily soap operas on several Indian television channels in various languages:

Ye Hai Mohabbatein on Star Plus in Hindi under Ekta Kapoor's production house Balaji Telefilms.

Pranayam on Asianet in Malayalam under Sree Saran Productions.

Kalyanam Mudhal Kadhal Varai on Star Vijay in Tamil.

Avanu Mathe Shravani on Asianet Suvarna in Kannada.

Manasupalik Mouna Geetham on Maa in Telugu.

Mon Niye Kachakachi on Star Jalsha in Bengali.

Other than these, Pardes Mein Hai Mera Dil, being telecast currently on Star Plus under Ekta Kapoor's production house Balaji Telefilms is based on Manju Kapoor's novel "The Immigrant".