Shashi Deshpande Biography and latest books by Shashi Deshpande

Shashi Deshpande born in 1938 in Dharwad, Karnataka, India is an award-winning Indian novelist. She is the second daughter of famous Kannada dramatist and writer Sriranga. She was born in Karnataka and educated in Bombay and Bangalore. Deshpande has degrees in Economics and Law. When she was living in Mumbai she did a course on journalism at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and worked for a couple of months as a journalist for the magazine Onlooker.

She published her first collection of short stories in 1978, and her first novel, The Dark Holds No Terror, in 1980. She won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the novel That Long Silence in 1990 and the Padma Shri award in 2009.

Shashi Deshpande has written four children’s books, a number of short stories, and nine novels, besides several perceptive essays, now available in a volume entitled Writing from the Margin and Other Essays.

Her books include: The Dark Holds No Terrors, If I Die Today, Come Up and Be Dead, That Long Silence, The Intrusion and Other Stories, The Binding Vine, A Matter of Time, Small Remedies, Moving On, In the Country of Deceit

Her children\'s books include: A Summer Adventure, The Hidden Treasure, The Only Witness, The Narayanpur Incident