Baby Halder

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Baby Halder ( Bengali : বেবী হালদার , Bebī Hāldār ; born June 19, 1973 in West Bengal ) is an Indian writer who became known in India through her autobiography Alo Andhari, published in 2002 .

In 2006 the English translation "A Life Less Ordinary" appeared. In Germany, the Draupadi Verlag published the book in 2008 under the title “No very ordinary life”. In it, Baby Halder describes her childhood in a poor family. Her childhood ended at the age of twelve when she was married to a man 14 years older than her. When she was 14 she had her first child. Two more followed. One day she and her three children decided to flee from her husband because he beat them and the children. In Delhi began a new life of Baby Halder and earned their own money by household work. Her boss, the anthropology professor Prabodh Kumar, a grandson of the famous Indian writer Premchand , encouraged her to write down her life story. Particularly noteworthy is the differentiated and reflected way in which she deals with her own life and does not stylize herself as a victim. The New York Times wrote on August 2, 2006: “Baby Halder's book gives us a moving account of the lives of millions of impoverished women in India and aspects of Indian society that are not normally the focus of novels . The author tells her life story in clear language, without a trace of self-pity. ”From October 14th to 30th, 2008, a reading tour with Baby Halder took place in Germany, which began at the Frankfurt Book Fair . Another book by Baby Halder has just been published in India, in which she describes her new life as a writer. A third book is in the works.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ আলো-আঁধারি , ālo-ā̃dhāri ; literally: light and shadow
  2. ↑ Not a very ordinary life - Baby Halder ( Memento from January 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Amelia Gentleman: In India, a Maid Becomes an Unlikely Literary Star . In: New York Times. August 2, 2006

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personal data
SURNAME Halder, baby
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH West Bengal