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'''Ravinder Randhawa''' (born 1952)<ref name=Donnell>{{cite book|last1=Donnell|first1=Alison|title=Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture|date=2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781134700240|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B-XkBXMWKjcC&q=Ravinder+Randhawa+1952&pg=PT492|accessdate=11 October 2014|chapter=Ravinder Randhawa}}</ref> is a [[British Asian]] novelist and short story writer.

==Life==
Randhawa was born in [[India]] in 1952, but moved to England with her parents when she was seven years old,<ref name="Fister1995">{{cite book|last=Fister|first=Barbara|authorlink=Barbara Fister|title=Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English|url=https://archive.org/details/thirdworldwomens0000fist|url-access=registration|year=1995|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28988-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/thirdworldwomens0000fist/page/256 256]|chapter=Randhawa, Ravinder}}</ref> and grew up in [[Warwickshire]].<ref name=BC>{{cite web|title=Ravinder Randhawa|url=http://literature.britishcouncil.org/ravinder-randhawa|website=LIterature: Writers|publisher=[[British Council]]|accessdate=11 October 2014}}</ref> She has worked with an organisation setting up refuges and resource centres for Asian women, and participated in [[antiracism]] campaigns.<ref name="Fister1995"/> As of 2014, she was living in London.<ref name=BC/>

Randhawa is the subject of a chapter in ''British Asian Fiction: Twenty-first Century Voices'' by Sarah Upstone.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Upstone|first1=Sarah|title=British Asian Fiction: Twenty-First-Century Voices|date=2010|publisher=Manchester UP|isbn=9780719078323|pages=62–81|chapter=3: Ravinder Randhawa}}</ref> Upstone writes that Randhawa "was essential to the burgeoning [[British Asian]] literature" and "not only wrote prolifically about the lives of British Asian women, but also fostered the careers of others, including [[Meera Syal]]."<ref>{{cite book|title=British Asian Fiction: Twenty-first Century Voices: Ravinder Randhawa|url=http://manchester.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7228/manchester/9780719078323.001.0001/upso-9780719078323-chapter-3|website=Manchester Scholarship Online|year=2010|doi=10.7228/manchester/9780719078323.001.0001|accessdate=11 October 2014|last1=Upstone|first1=Sara|isbn=9780719078323}} ''Abstract of chapter, available online''</ref>

==Work==

In 1984, she founded the [[Asian Women Writers' Collective]], which has published multiple collections of Asian women writers works. Her first novel ''A Wicked Old Woman'' is described as "a pioneering work of fiction", "one of the first [novels] to be published by a British Asian writer in the postwar period", and "a linguistically and structurally playful text that seems to foreground itself as artwork." ''The Coral Strand'', published in 2001, was reissued as ''A Tiger's Smile''. It "moves between pre-Independence Bombay and contemporary London" and "shifts seamlessly between places and states of mind, physical settings and stream of consciousness, between poetic prose and documentary realism".<ref name=BC />

==Selected publications==

*''A Wicked Old Woman''. St. Paul: [[Women's Press]] (1987). {{ISBN|9780704350328}}
*''Hari-Jan''. London: Mantra Lingua (1992). {{ISBN|9781852691189}}
*''The Coral Strand''. Looe: House of Stratus (2001). {{ISBN|9780755103447}}

===Contributed works===

*''A Girl's Best Friend.'' St. Paul: Women's Press (1987) {{ISBN|0704349078}}
*''Right of Way''. St. Paul: Women's Press (1989). {{ISBN|978-0704340916}}
*''Flaming Spirit''. London: [[Virago Press]] (1994). {{ISBN|9781853817496}}
*''The New Anthem.'' Delhi: Tranquebar Press (2009). {{ISBN|9380032455}}

==References==
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==External links==
*{{official website|http://www.ravinderrandhawa.com/}}

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