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Indira Ganesan (born 1960, in Srirangam) is an American novelist and essayist, best known for her novels The Journey (1990), Inheritance (1998), and As Sweet As Honey (2013). A graduate of Vassar College and the University of Iowa, she was granted a Mary Ingraham Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe College in 1998 as well as a fellowship of the Paden Institute for Writers of Color in 2004. Her essays have featured in the magazines Antaeus , Glamour and Mississippi Review , as well as in Newsday . She was a judge for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in 2014. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

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