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{{short description|Literateur}}

[[File: Girish Karnad and Meenakshi Mukherjee - ACLALS 2004.jpg|thumb|[[Girish Karnad]] (left) and Meenakshi Mukherjee, ACLALS Conference 2004, Hyderabad, India]]

'''Meenakshi Mukherjee''' (died 16 September 2009, aged 72) was a litterateur and [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] winner. Her book, "An Indian for all seasons", a biography of historian [[R.C. Dutt]], published by Penguin, was to be released in [[Delhi]]. Mukherjee received the [[Sahitya Akademi award]] in 2003 for her book ''[[The Perishable Empire]]: Essays on Indian Writing in English''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Meenakshi Mukherjee, litterateur, passes away|url=http://www.thehindu.com/books/meenakshi-mukherjee-litterateur-passes-away/article21334.ece|accessdate=9 May 2014|newspaper=The Hindu}}</ref> She taught [[English literature]] and Critical theory at several colleges in [[Patna]], [[Pune]], [[Delhi]] and [[University of Hyderabad]]. Her last and longest spell was as Professor of English in the [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]], [[New Delhi]]. {{citation needed|date=August 2018}} She was a visiting professor in several universities outside India, including the [[University of Texas]] at [[Austin]], the [[University of Chicago]], the [[University of California]] at [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], [[Macquarie University]] ([[Sydney]]), the [[University of Canberra]] and [[Flinders University]] ([[Adelaide]]). {{citation needed|date=August 2018}} Her husband [[Sujit Mukherjee]], was a teacher and a literary scholar. They had two daughters.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/lr/2003/02/02/stories/2003020200010100.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141229232642/http://www.thehindu.com/lr/2003/02/02/stories/2003020200010100.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 December 2014|title=Remembering Sujit|first=Sachidananda|last=Mohanty|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=2003-02-02|accessdate=30 December 2014}}</ref> They lived the final years of their lives in [[Hyderabad]].{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}