Sharanya Manivannan

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Sharanya Manivannan (born 1985) is an Indian author, columnist and poet. [1] [2]

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Early life

Manivannan was born in India. She lived in Sri Lanka, Malaysia and from 2007 she is residing in Chennai, India. [3] [1] She received the Lavanya Sankaran Fellowship for 2008–2009. She writes a column, the 'Venus Flytrap' in the New Indian Express. [4]

Her 2018 book The Queen of Jasmine County is a fictionalised account of the 9th century Tamil Hindu poet Andal. [5] She combined prose with poetry in her lyrical novel where she imagines a young Kodhai transforming into poet goddess Andal. [6]

Selected works

Some of her books are: [7]

Awards

Her book The High Priestess Never Marries received the 2016 South Asia Laadli award. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Excavating a Personal History: An Interview with Sharanya Manivannan – Michigan Quarterly Review". sites.lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
  2. "Sharanya Manivannan". The New Indian Express. 21 March 2024. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
  3. HLF Online with Savie Karnel and Sharanya Manivannan . Retrieved 6 April 2024 via www.youtube.com.
  4. 1 2 "Four poems by Sharanya Manivannan | Superstition Review". superstitionreview.asu.edu. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
  5. 1 2 "Sharanya Manivannan's First Novel On A 9th Century Poet Is About Love and Loneliness". HuffPost. 21 December 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
  6. Santhanam, Radhika (21 March 2020). "In conversation with Sharanya Manivannan". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 18 August 2025.
  7. "Sharanya Manivannan". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
  8. Manivannan, Sharanya (3 March 2024). "Writer Sharanya Manivannan on her picture book being translated into Tamil, her mother tongue". Scroll.in. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
  9. "The Queen of Jasmine Country by Sharanya Manivannan - Purple Pencil Project". 30 September 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
  10. "The Wire: The Wire News India, Latest News, News from India, Politics, External Affairs, Science, Economics, Gender and Culture". thewire.in. Retrieved 6 April 2024.