Kamala Markandaya
Kamala Markandaya (1924 – 2004) was born in Mysore, India. Shestudied history at Madras University and later worked for a smallprogressive magazine before moving to London in 1948 in pursuit ofa career in journalism. There she began writing her nov
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Kamala Markandaya (1924 – 2004) was born in Mysore, India. Shestudied history at Madras University and later worked for a smallprogressive magazine before moving to London in 1948 in pursuit ofa career in journalism. There she began writing her novels; Nectar ina Sieve, her first novel published in 1954, was an international bestseller.Reviewing the republication of The Nowhere Man in 2019,Booker prize-winner Bernadine Evaristo wrote; ‘For the last 20 yearsof her life, Kamala Markandaya couldn’t get published and wentout of print. Generations of readers lost out in reading this gem.No
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