Kalpana Swaminathan

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Kalpana Swaminathan (born 1956) is an Indian writer from Mumbai. She also writes with Ishrat Syed as Kalpish Ratna. Swaminathan and Syed are both surgeons.^[1]^[2] Swaminathan won the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Award (Fiction) for Venus Crossing: Twelve Stories of Transit.

Bibliography[edit]

1993: The True Adventures of Prince Teentang
1994: Dattatray's Dinosaur and Other Stories
1997: Cryptic Death
2000: Ordinary Mr Pai Two Urban Fairy Tales
2002: The Weekday Sisters
2002: Gavial Avial
2003: Ambrosia for Afters
2003: Jaldi's Friends
2006: The Page Three Murders
2006: Bougainvillea House
2007: The Gardener's Song
2009: Venus Crossing: Twelve Stories of Transit
2010: The Monochrome Madonna^[3]
2012: I Never Knew It Was You
2013: The Secret Gardner
2017: Greenlight

Awards and honors[edit]

2009: Vodafone Crossword Book Award, winner, Venus Crossing
2010: The Hindu Best Fiction Award, shortlist, Venus Crossing

References[edit]

↑ "'Surgery and writing bring us joy'". The Hindu. 26 December 2009. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
↑ "Whodunit?". The Hindu. 7 June 2010. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
↑ A crisp page turner, Deccan Herald. 28 August 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2010.

External links[edit]

The pleasures of re-imagining, by Nandini Nair, 'The Hindu' 6 July 2006.
Experimental Writer, by Sitanshi Talati-Parikh, Verve Online, September 2007
Black, White, and Grey: Exclusive interview with 'The Monochrome Madonna' author Kalpana Swaminathan, by Arun Kale, Helter Skelter Magazine, June 2010

[1] "'Surgery and writing bring us joy'". The Hindu. 26 December 2009. Retrieved 8 July 2010.

[2] "Whodunit?". The Hindu. 7 June 2010. Retrieved 8 July 2010.

[3] A crisp page turner, Deccan Herald. 28 August 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2010.

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