Malathi Rao

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Malathi Rao
Born
Bangalore, [1] Karnataka, India
OccupationWriter
NationalityIndian
GenreFiction
Notable worksDisorderly Women
Notable awards Sahitya Akademi Award

Malathi Rao is an Indian writer. She won the Central Sahitya Akademi award for her English language novel Disorderly Women in 2007. [2]

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Early life and background.

Malathi Rao (born April 1930) was born in Bangalore, Karnataka, to Chennagiri Padmanabha Rao and Smt. Padmavathi. She is the eldest of five sisters and has one older and two younger brothers. As a child, Rao was inspired by the works of Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, and Louisa May Alcott. She always showed an inclination for writing and went on to study English Literature at the Universities of Bangalore and Mysore. Representing the new generation of her time, she was an educated, independent, and working woman. Rao served as a lecturer in English at Vijaya College in Bangalore, where the legendary Prof. V. T. Srinivasan was the principal and head of the department. She spent most of her teaching career in Delhi, where she taught English Literature at Miranda House, University of Delhi. Highly respected and loved by her colleagues and students, Delhi remained her home until the mid-1990s, when she returned to Bangalore to focus on her writing career. [3] [4]

Works

Malathi Rao has written three novels, three collections of short stories and several newspaper articles. [5] Her well-known works include "The Bridge," "...And in Benares flows the Ganga," and "Come for a Coffee... Please."

She rose to prominence with her novel 'Disorderly Women' published in 2007. She won the Sahitya Akademi Award presented to by the Hon. President of India. Disorderly Women is a story of four Brahmin women in India (pre-independence) who struggle to break the barriers built around them by society.

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Awards

References

  1. ↑ Article Title
  2. 1 2 "Awards & fellowships-Akademi Awards". sahitya-akademi.gov.in. Archived from the original on 11 June 2010.
  3. ↑ "Miranda House Faculty". University of Delhi. Miranda House. Retrieved 4 November 2025. Miranda House, affiliated with the University of Delhi, is one of India's premier institutions for higher education in the liberal arts and sciences, where noted writer Malathi Rao served as a lecturer in English Literature.
  4. ↑ Rao, Malathi (2007). The Bridge. Rupa Publications. Malathi Rao's novel The Bridge reflects her lifelong engagement with the complexities of women's lives in modern India.
  5. 1 2 "The Hindu : Magazine / Interview : There are people listening". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 14 March 2008. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  6. ↑ "Bridge malathi rao novel Books: Online Shopping in India – Buy Books,…". Archived from the original on 23 January 2013.
  7. ↑ "The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Telling a local tale in a global tongue". Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2010.
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