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FAMOUS

WRITERS OF
Arundhati Roy
• Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an
Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small
Things (1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for
friction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a
non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist
involved in human rights and environmental causes.
Arundhati Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India.
Since the success of her novel, Roy has written a
television serial, The Banyan Tree, and the
documentary DAM/AGE: A Film with Arundhati Roy (2002).
In early 2007, Roy stated that she was working on a
second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.
Anjum Hasan
• Anjum Hasan is an Indian novelist, short story writer,
poet, and editor. She was born in 1972
in Shillong, Meghalaya where she graduated in
philosophy from North-Eastern Hill University. She
currently lives in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Anjum
Hasan's first book was a collection of poems Street on
the Hill, published by Sahitya Akademi in 2006. The
book appeared in Norwegian as Street at the top of a
hill as in 2011 from Margbok .
Janice Pariat
• Janice Pariat is an Indian poet and writer. She was born
in Assam and grew up in Shillong, Meghalaya. Boats on
Land (Random House India, 2012), her debut collection
of short stories, won the 2013 Sahitya Akademi Young
Writer Award for the English language and the
2013 Crossword Book Award for fiction. Pariat is the
first writer from Meghalaya to receive an award from
the Sahitya Akademi for a work in English.
Seahorse was shortlisted for The Hindu Literary
Prize (2015).
Siddhartha Deb
• Siddhartha Deb (born 1970) is an Indian author who was
born in Meghalaya and grew up in Shillong in northeastern
India. He was educated in India and at Columbia
University, US. Deb began his career in journalism as a
sports journalist in Calcutta in 1994 before moving to Delhi
to continue regular journalism until 1998. His first
novel, The Point of Return, is semi-autobiographical in
nature and is set in a fictional hill-station that closely
resembles Shillong in India's Northeast. His second
novel, Surface, also set in Northeast India, is about a
disillusioned Sikh journalist. His first non-fiction book was
The Beautiful And the Damned.
Inderjit Kaur Barthakur
• Inderjit Kaur Barthakur is an Indian civil servant, economist
and writer. She is a member of the North Eastern Council
(NEC), which carries the rank of a Minister of State of the
Union government. She has published several books of
poetry, stories and cuisine and So Full So Alive and Stories
to Win the World are some of her notable works. She
served as a secretary to the Government of India and was
the president of the Indian Economics Association in 1990.
She is the recipient of awards such as Mahila Shiromani
Award (1989), International Women Award (1992), Bharat
Jyoti Award (2008) and Indira Priyadarshini Award (2011).
Patricia Mukhim
• Patricia Mukhim is an Indian social activist, writer,
journalist and the editor of Shillong Times, known for her
social activism. A recipient of honours such as Chameli
Devi Jain award, ONE India award, Federation of Indian
Chambers of Commerce and Industry FLO award,
Upendra Nath Brahma Soldier of Humanity award, Siva
Prasad Barooah National award and North East
Excellence award, she was honored by the Government
of India, in 2000, with the fourth highest Indian civilian
award of Padma Shri.
Manas Chaudhuri
• Manas Chaudhuri is an Indian journalist and the former
editor of Shillong Times, an English language daily
published from the Meghalayan capital of Shillong. He won
as a legislator to the Shillong Assembly twice from
Mawprem constituency as an independent candidate. He is
a former cabinet minister of the State and served Shillong
Times as its Editor from 1978 to 2008, when he resigned
from the post for Patricia Mukhim to take over. The
Government of India awarded him the fourth highest
civilian honor of the Padma Shri, in 2005, for his
contributions to Indian journalism. He is the founder of the
Ardhendu Chaudhuri Charitable Trust.
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