Kalpana Swaminathan

Kalpana Swaminathan (born 1956) is an Indian writer from Mumbai. She also writes with Ishrat Syed as Kalpish Ratna. Swaminathan and Syed are both surgeons. ^{[1] [2]} Swaminathan won the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Award (Fiction) for Venus Crossing: Twelve Stories of Transit.

Bibliography

• 1993: The True Adventures of Prince Teentang
• 1994: Dattatray's Dinosaur and Other Stories
• 1997: Cryptic Death
• 2000: Ordinary Mr Pai Two Urban Fairy Tales
• 2002: The Weekday Sisters
• 2002: Gavial Avial
• 2003: Ambrosia for Afters
• 2003: Jaldi's Friends
• 2006: The Page Three Murders
• 2006: Bougainvillea House
• 2007: The Gardener's Song
• 2009: Venus Crossing: Twelve Stories of Transit
• 2010: The Monochrome Madonna ^[3]
• 2012: I Never Knew It Was You
• 2013: The Secret Gardner
• 2017: Greenlight

Awards and honors

• 2009: Vodafone Crossword Book Award, winner, Venus Crossing
• 2010: The Hindu Best Fiction Award, shortlist, Venus Crossing

References

1. "'Surgery and writing bring us joy'". The Hindu . 26 December 2009. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
2. "Whodunit?". The Hindu . 7 June 2010. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
3. A crisp page turner, Deccan Herald . 28 August 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2010.

External links

• Experimental Writer, by Sitanshi Talati-Parikh, Verve Online, September 2007 ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
• Black, White, and Grey: Exclusive interview with 'The Monochrome Madonna' author Kalpana Swaminathan, by Arun Kale, Helter Skelter Magazine, June 2010