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Kamala Markandaya


(Kamala Purnaiya)
India (1924 - 2004)

Kamala Markandaya was a pseudonym used by Kamala Purnaiya Taylor, an Indian novelist and journalist. A native of Mysore, India, Markandaya was a graduate of Madras University, and afterwards published several short stories in Indian newspapers. After India declared its independence, Markandaya moved to Britain, though she still labeled herself an Indian expatriate long afterwards.
 
 
Novels
   Nectar in a Sieve (1954)
   Some Inner Fury (1955)
   A Silence of Desire (1960)
   Possession (1963)
   A Handful of Rice (1966)
   The Coffer Dams (1971)
   The Nowhere Man (1973)
   Two Virgins (1973)
   The Golden Honeycomb (1977)
   Shalimar (1983)
   Bombay Tiger (2008)
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