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'''Shashi Deshpande''' (born 1938) is an Indian novelist. She is a recipient of the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
She was born in [[Dharwad]], [[Karnataka]], the second daughter of the Kannada dramatist and writer [[Adya Rangacharya]] and Sharada Adya.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/Sharada-Adya-Rangacharya-dead/articleshow/1708448074.cms|title=Sharada Adya Rangacharya dead|publisher=Times of India|access-date=7 January 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Shashi Deshpande: A Critical Spectrum|page=191|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P8RKahdswO4C|author=T. M. J. Indra Mohan|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist.|year=2004|isbn=978-8126903092}}</ref> She was educated in [[Bombay]] (now Mumbai) and [[Bangalore]]. Deshpande has degrees in [[Economics]] and [[Law]]. In Mumbai, she studied [[journalism]] at the Vidya Bhavan and worked for a few months as a journalist for the magazine 'Onlooker'.<ref>[http://www.sawnet.org/books/authors.php?Deshpande+Shashi SAWNET: Bookshelf: Shashi Deshpande<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><br />
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She published her first collection of short stories in 1978, and her first novel, 'The Dark Holds No Terror', in 1980. She won the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] for the novel ''That Long Silence'' in 1990 and the [[Padma Shri]] award in 2009.<ref>http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=46983</ref> Her novel ''Shadow Play'' was shortlisted for [[The Hindu Literary Prize]] in 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/shortlist-of-the-six-novelists-of-the-hindu-prize-2014/article6471245.ece |title=Here's the shortlist |work=The Hindu |date=5 October 2014 |access-date=24 December 2014}}</ref><br />
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Deshpande has written four [[children’s books]], a number of short stories, nine [[novels]], and an essay collection entitled ''Writing from the Margin and Other Essays''.<br />
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On 9 October 2015, she resigned from her position on the [[Sahitya Akademi]]'s general council and returned her Sahitya Akademi award. In doing so, she joined a broader protest by other writers against the Akademi's perceived inaction and silence on the murder of [[M. M. Kalburgi]].<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=The Hindu | date=9 October 2015 | url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/noted-writer-sashi-despande-stepped-down-from-the-sahitya-akademi-council/article7742990.ece?ref=relatedNews | title=After Sashi Deshpande steps down, Akademi explains its silence | first=Anuradha | last=Raman | access-date=20 December 2018 }}</ref><br />
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On 6 December 2018, during her inaugural address of the ninth edition of the [[Goa Arts and Literature Festival]] (GALF), Deshpande urged Indians to think about the consequences of wanting a Hindu nation, and reminded those present of the violence and carnage that had been caused by the India-Pakistan partition.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://englishnews.thegoan.net/story.php?id=47373|title=Hope idea of Hindutva is rejected in upcoming polls: Author who returned Sahitya Award|date=7 Dec 2018|work=The Goan Everyday|access-date=10 Dec 2018}}</ref><br />
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==Selected bibliography==<br />
* ''The Dark Holds No Terrors'', Penguin Books India (1980), {{ISBN|0-14-014598-2}}<br />
* ''If I Die Today'' (1982)<br />
* ''Come Up and Be Dead'' (1983)<br />
* ''[[Roots and Shadows]]'' (1983)<br />
* ''[[That Long Silence]]'', Penguin (paperback 1989), {{ISBN|0-14-012723-2}}<br />
* ''The Intrusion and Other Stories'' (1993)<br />
* [[A Matter of Time (Deshpande novel)|''A Matter of Time'']], The Feminist Press at CUNY (1996), {{ISBN|1-55861-264-5}}<br />
* ''The Binding Vine'', The Feminist Press at CUNY (2002), {{ISBN|1-55861-402-8}}<br />
* ''[[Small Remedies]]'', Penguin India (2000), {{ISBN|978-0-14-029487-3}}<br />
* ''Moving On'', Penguin Books India (2004), {{ISBN|978-0-670-05781-8}}<br />
* ''In the Country of Deceit'', Penguin/Viking (2008), {{ISBN|978-0-670-08198-1}}<br />
* ''Shadow Play'', Aleph (2013), {{ISBN|978-9-382-27719-4}}<br />
* ''Strangers to Ourselves'', HarperCollins (2015), {{ISBN|978-9-351-77634-5}}<br />
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; Children's books<br />
* ''A Summer Adventure''<br />
* ''The Hidden Treasure''<br />
* ''The Only Witness''<br />
* ''The Narayanpur Incident''<ref>Joseph, Margaret Paul. Jasmine on a String: A survey of Women in India Writing Fiction in English</ref><br />
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=== Memoir ===<br />
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* ''Listen to Me''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/listen-to-me-review-a-place-of-her-own/article25970421.ece|title='Listen to Me' review: A place of her own|last=Datta|first=Sudipta|date=2019-01-12|work=The Hindu|access-date=2020-01-08|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><br />
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=== Collected Essays ===<br />
* ''Writing from the Margin & Other Essays'', Penguin (2003), {{ISBN|0-67-004996-4}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/features/womenwriters/deshpande_life.shtml Feature on Women Writers, BBC World Service]<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070313095703/http://www.hindu.com/yw/2006/10/13/stories/2006101300430800.htm Review of 3 children's novels, The Hindu, 13 Oct 2006]<br />
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