Kamala Markandaya Author

Kamala Markandaya (1924 - 2004) was born in Mysore, India. She studied history at Madras University and later worked for a small progressive magazine before moving to London in 1948 in pursuit of a career in journalism. There she began writing her novels; Nectar in a Sieve, her first novel published in 1954, was in international best-seller. A contemporary of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and R.K. Narayan, Kamala Markandaya is now being rediscovered as an essential figure in the post-colonial cannon. Other books by Kamala Markandaya : Nectar in a Sieve; A Silence of Desire; Possession; A Handful of Rice; The Coffer Dams; Two Virgins; The Golden Honeycomb and Bombay Tiger.