Biography
"Fun Fearless Female" – is how Abha Dawesar has been crowned by Cosmopolitan, a monthly magazine of India. Femina magazine in India named her one of India's 12 remarkable women and one of India's leading national English language newspapers, The Hindustan Times, included Dawesar with a list of eleven other authors in its Next Big Things for 2005. New York's weekly magazine Time Out listed Dawesar as one of 25 People to make their mark in 2005. This young and promising author was born in New Delhi in 1974. She graduated with a degree in political philosophy from Harvard University after writing an honors thesis examining the conception of human greatness in Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals. She currently works in Business Development for a software company in New York. She is the receipient of the New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Fiction for 2000.
Dawesar's debut novel Miniplanner was chosen as a "Season's best pick" by the NY publication LGNY. It was also published in India by Penguin Books under the title The Three of Us and hailed as "a coming-of-age of Indian diaspora writers."
Babyji, her second novel, is the winner of the American Library Association's Stonewall Award for 2006. The novel was also named one of the ten best books of fiction for 2005 by the Boston Phoenix. It was reviewed nationally and internationally in the US media, India, Italy, Germany, and Spain.
That Summer in Paris is Abha Dawesar's third novel and it is to be released on 20th June, 2006. |
