Anna Suvorova Author

Anna Suvorova is Head of Department of Asian Literatures at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. A recognized scholar in the field of Indo-Islamic culture and literature, she frequently lectures at universities all over the world. She is the author of several book in Russian and English including The Poetics of Urdu Dastaan; The Sources of New Indian Drama; The Quest for Theatre: The Twentieth Century Drama in India and Pakistan; Nostalgia for Lucknow and Masnawi: A Study of Urdu Romance. She has also translated several books on pre-modern Urdu prose into Russian.