Name Margaret Mascarenhas | Role Novelist | |
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Books The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos, Skin | ||
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Margaret Mascarenhas is a transnational novelist, poet, essayist and independent curator. Born in America and of Goan ethnicity, she spent some of her childhood years in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Mascarenhas currently lives in Goa, India where she is the founding Co-Director the Blue Shores Prison Art Project, a prison art curriculum designed for inmates that focuses on the interrelationships between image and text. She is on the Advisory Boards of the Goa Centre for the Arts and Goa Photo.
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Works
She is the author of the novels Skin and The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos.
Skin, a diasporic novel, moves from a bar in California to life in a Goan village, and has formed part of post-colonial academic discourse around the world since it was published by Penguin in 2001. It has been translated into French and Portuguese. The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos was selected for the Indie Next List and was a [Barnes and Noble Discover Pick] in 2009.
Her poetry and sketch collection, Triage--casualties of love and sex was released in 2013.
Mascarenhas' essays and articles have been published in Marg, Colloquio Letras, Urban Voice, and elsewhere. Her op-ed columns and book reviews have appeared in numerous print and online publications, including Outlook, India Today, TOI Crest, Hindustan Times, Goa Today, and The Navhind Times Panorama.