Malathi Rao

Malathi Rao
Malathi Rao
Born	Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Indian
Genre	Fiction
Notable works	Disorderly Women
Notable awards	Sahitya Akademi Award

Malathi Rao (Kannada: ಮಾಲತಿ ರಾವ್) is an Indian writer. She won the Central Sahitya Akademi award for her English language novel Disorderly Women in 2007.^[2]

Early life and background.[edit]

Malathi Rao was born (April 1930) in Bangalore, Karnataka to Chennagiri Padmanabha Rao and Smt. Padmavathi. She is the eldest of five sisters. She has an older brother and two younger brothers. As a young girl, Rao was inspired by the works of Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters and Louisa May Alcott among others. She always had a penchant for writing and pursued English Literature at Bangalore and Mysore Universities. She epitomized the new generation of her time, as a highly educated independent working woman. She was an English Lecturer in Vijaya College, Bangalore and the legendary Prof.V.T.Srinivasan was principal and Head of the department in the college. Rao spent a major part of her teaching career in Delhi. She taught English literature at Miranda House, Delhi University. Highly respected and loved by her peers and students alike, Delhi was her home until she moved back to Bangalore in the mid-nineties. Once in Bangalore, she concentrated on her writing career.

Rao enjoys traveling and has traveled all over the world. She currently lives in Bangalore.

Works[edit]

Malathi Rao has written three novels, three collections of short stories and authored several newspaper articles.^[3] "The Bridge," "...And in Benares flows the Ganga," and "Come for a Coffee... Please," are among her well-known works.

She rose to prominence with her novel 'Disorderly Women' published in 2007. She won the Sahitya Akademi Award presented to by the Hon. President of India. Disorderly Women is a story of four Brahmin women in India (pre-independence) who struggle to break the barriers built around them by society.

Rao's next novel is eagerly-awaited and is expected to be published in 2013. It is currently titled Inquisition.

Publications[edit]

The Bridge (novel), Chanakya Publications (Delhi, India), 1990^[4]
Disorderly Women (novel), Dronequill Publishers (Bangalore, India), 2005
Three collections of short stories ^[3]
Inquisition (upcoming novel)^[5]

Awards[edit]

Sahitya Akademi Award in 2007^[2]

References[edit]

↑ http://www.hinduonnet.com/2008/01/04/stories/2008010454000400.htm
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa10304.htm#english Archived 11 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 [1]
↑ "Bridge malathi rao novel Books: Online Shopping in India - Buy Books,…".
↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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[award-2] 2.0 ^2.1 http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa10304.htm#english Archived 11 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine

[int-3] 3.0 ^3.1 [1]

[4] "Bridge malathi rao novel Books: Online Shopping in India - Buy Books,…".

[hn-5] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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v t e Sahitya Akademi Award for English
1960–1970	The Guide by R. K. Narayan (1960) The Serpent and the Rope by Raja Rao (1964) The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin by Verrier Elwin (1965) Shadow From Ladakh by Bhabani Bhattacharya (1967) An Artist in Life by Niharranjan Ray (1969)
1971–1980	Morning Face by Mulk Raj Anand (1971) Scholar Extraordinary by Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1975) Jawaharlal Nehru by Sarvepalli Gopal (1976) Azadi by Chaman Nahal (1977) Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai (1978) Inside the Haveli by Rama Mehta (1979) On the Mother by K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1980)
1981–1990	Relationship by Jayanta Mahapatra (1981) The Last Labyrinth by Arun Joshi (1982) Latter-Day Psalms by Nissim Ezekiel (1983) The Keeper of the Dead by Keki N. Daruwalla (1984) Collected Poems by Kamala Das (1985) Rich Like Us by Nayantara Sahgal (1986) Trapfalls In the Sky by Shiv K. Kumar (1987) The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth (1988) The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh (1989) That Long Silence by Shashi Deshpande (1990)
1991–2000	The Trotter-Nama by Allan Sealy (1991) Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra by Ruskin Bond (1992) After Amnesia by G. N. Devy (1993) Serendip by Dom Moraes (1994) Memories of Rain by Sunetra Gupta (1996) Final Solutions and Other Plays by Mahesh Dattani (1998) The Collected Poems by A. K. Ramanujan (1999) Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar (2000)
2001–2010	Rajaji: A Life by Rajmohan Gandhi (2001) A New World by Amit Chaudhuri (2002) The Perishable Empire by Meenakshi Mukherjee (2003) The Mammaries of the Welfare State by Upamanyu Chatterjee (2004) The Algebra of Infinite Justice by Arundhati Roy (2005) The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa (2006) Disorderly Women by Malathi Rao (2007) Mahabharata: An Inquiry into the Human Condition by Chaturvedi Badrinath (2009) The Book of Rachel by Esther David (2010)
2011–present	India after Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha (2011) These Errors are Correct by Jeet Thayil (2012) Laburnum For My Head by Temsula Ao (2013) Trying to Say Goodbye by Adil Jussawalla (2014) Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer by Cyrus Mistry (2015) Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto (2016) The Black Hill by Mamang Dai (2017) The Blind Lady's Descendants by Anees Salim (2018)