Meena Kandasamy
Auteur de When I Hit You
Séries
Œuvres de Meena Kandasamy
Cuando te golpeo 1 exemplaire
The Suspicious Husband 1 exemplaire
This Poem Will Provoke You 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1984
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- India
- Pays (pour la carte)
- India
- Lieu de naissance
- Chennai, India
- Lieux de résidence
- Chennai, India
England, UK
USA - Études
- Anna University (PhD ∙ Soci-linguistics)
University of Iowa
University of Kent - Professions
- writer
social activist
translator - Courte biographie
- Ilavenil Meena Kandasamy (born 1984) is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and activist who is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.Born in 1984 to Tamil parents, both university professors. Named as Illavenil by her parents, she developed an early interest in poetry, and later adopted the name Meena. Meena completed a Doctorate of Philosophy in Socio-linguistics from Anna University, Chennai. Meena wrote her first poetry at the age of 17 She has also represented India at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program and was a Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom.
Apart from her literary works, she is vocal about various contemporary political issues relating to caste, corruption, violence, and women's rights in more ways than one. She has an influential and regular social media presence, through her Facebook and Twitter handles. She also writes columns for platforms like Outlook India and The Hindu, occasionally. This was primarily brought to light during the beef controversy at the Osmania University in Hyderabad in 2012. and also started translating books by Dalit writers and leaders into English at that age Most of her works are centered on feminism and the anti-caste Caste Annihilation Movement of the contemporary Indian milieu.
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- Œuvres
- 19
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- Membres
- 375
- Popularité
- #64,333
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 12
- ISBN
- 42
- Langues
- 5
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