Shashi Deshpande

Shashi Deshpande, 2020

Shashi Deshpande (born August 19, 1938 in Dharwad , Karnataka state , India ) is an Indian writer. Deshpande has authored numerous novels and several children's books. She has received various national awards for her novel That Long Silence . Deshpande is known beyond India with her English-language work; She achieved her international breakthrough in 1988 with the novel That Long Silence (Eng. 'The Last of Silence').

Life

Shashi Deshpande was born as the second daughter of the Indian playwright and author Shriranga in Dharwad in the Indian state of Karnataka. Deshpande grew up bilingual (the Kannada and Marathi languages ). She first attended a Protestant mission school in Dharwad. She then studied economics at Elphin College in Bombay and graduated from Government Law College in Bangalore with a law degree . She also has an MA in Literature from the University of Mysore . After their marriage, she lived in England for a year and on her return began writing, initially articles for The Deccan Herald and Onlooker magazine .

Deshpande has been writing short stories and novels since the 1970s. Deshpande lives with her family in Bangalore.

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Deshpandes short stories were published in 1978 in the anthology The Legacy . Her first novel, The Dark Holds No Terror , was published in 1980. With the novels The Dark Holds No Terror , Roots and Shadows (1983), That Long Silence (1988) and Small Remedies (2000), she has established herself as a leading Indian writer whose focus is the situation of urban middle class women. Deshpande won various Indian national prizes for her work, including the 1990 Sahitya Akademi Award for the novel That Long Silence . With That Long Silence (dt. 'Die Last des Schweigens') from 1988 she also achieved her national and international breakthrough. Her novel Shadow Play was shortlisted for the Hindu Literary Prize in 2014.

In addition to novels and short stories, Deshpande has published four children's books, including The Narayanpur Incident (Eng. The Sleeping Tiger ), the author's most popular children's book. It is about the fate of the siblings Babu, Manju and Mohan around the time of India's independence. Her essays are available in an anthology entitled Writing from the Margin and Other Essays . In this volume the author deals with her own literary work and gives her view of the literary scene.

Deshpande's novel The Dark Holds No Terrors was filmed in 2000 by the director Prema Karanth with the title Bandh Jharoke ( Eng . Closed Windows).

Works (selection)

Novels and short stories

The Legacy . Writers Workshop, Calcutta 1978.
The Dark Holds No Terrors . Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi 1980 (German The dark does not hold any horror . Translated by Giovanni Bandini. Mersch, Freiburg i. Br. 1986, ISBN 978-3-922156-62-8 ).
Roots and Shadows . Sangam Books, Bombay 1983.
That long silence . Penguin, New Delhi 1989 (German Die Last des Schweigens . Translated by Maja Ueberle-Pfaff. Waldgut, Frauenfeld 1989, ISBN 978-3-7294-0117-4 ).
The Intrusion and Other Stories . Penguin, New Delhi 1993.
The Binding Vine . Penguin, New Delhi 1993.
A matter of time . Penguin, New Delhi 1996.
Small remedies . Penguin, New Delhi 2000.
Moving on . Penguin Viking, New Delhi 2004.
In the Country of Deceit . Penguin Viking, New Delhi 2008.
Shadow play . Aleph 2013, ISBN 978-9-382-27719-4 .

Children's books

A summer adventure . India Book House Education Trust, Bombay 1979.
The Narayanpur Incident . Penguin, New Delhi 1997 (German The Sleeping Tiger . Translated by Marion Balkenhol. Nagel and Kimche, Zurich, Frauenfeld 1998, ISBN 3-312-00814-X ).
Three novels: A summer adventure; The hidden treasure; The only witness . Puffin Books, New Delhi [a. a.] 2006, ISBN 978-0-14-333511-5 .

Essays

Writing from the Margin and Other Essays . Penguin Viking, New Delhi [u. a.] 2003, ISBN 978-0-670-04996-7

literature

Sissy Helff: Shashi Deshpande . In: Martin Kämchen (Ed.) Indian literature of the present . Richard Boorberg Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-88377-846-X , pp. 311-320.
Indra TMJ Mohan (Ed.): Shashi Deshpande: A Critical Spectrum . Atlantic, New Delhi 2004.
Chanchala K. Naik (Ed.): Writing Difference: The Novels of Shashi Deshpande . Pencraft International, New Delhi 2005, ISBN 81-85753-69-5 .
Sarabjit Kaur Sandhu: The Image of Woman in the Novels of Shashi Deshpande . Prestige, New Delhi 1991.

Web links

Profile of Shashi Deshpande on the Indian Express

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Biograms of the writers . In: Martin Kämchen (ed.): Indian literature of the present . Richard Boorberg Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-88377-846-X , p. 438-439 .
↑ Jon Mee: After Midnight: The Novel in the 1980s and 1990s . Ed .: Arvind Krishna Mehrotha. Columbia University Press, New York 2003, ISBN 0-231-12810-X , pp. 332 .
↑ Here's the shortlist. In: The Hindu . October 5, 2014. Accessed November 21, 2018.
↑ Sissy Helff: Shashi Deshpande . In: Martin Kämchen (ed.): Indian literature of the present . Richard Boorberg Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-88377-846-X , p. 314, 317 .

personal data
SURNAME	Deshpande, Shashi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Indian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 19, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dharwad , Karnataka , India

[:0-1] Biograms of the writers . In: Martin Kämchen (ed.): Indian literature of the present . Richard Boorberg Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-88377-846-X , p. 438-439 .

[2] Jon Mee: After Midnight: The Novel in the 1980s and 1990s . Ed .: Arvind Krishna Mehrotha. Columbia University Press, New York 2003, ISBN 0-231-12810-X , pp. 332 .

[3] Here's the shortlist. In: The Hindu . October 5, 2014. Accessed November 21, 2018.

[4] Sissy Helff: Shashi Deshpande . In: Martin Kämchen (ed.): Indian literature of the present . Richard Boorberg Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-88377-846-X , p. 314, 317 .