Birth—1948, Amritsar

Education:
M.A. Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, M. Phil Delhi University

Bibliography

• Custody (2011)

• The Immigrant (2007)

• Home (2006)

• A Married Woman (2002)

• Difficult Daughters (1998)

Manju Kapur is an Indian novelist. She was born in 1948 in Amritsar. She graduated from the Miranda House University College for women and went on to take an MA at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and an M.Phil. at Delhi University.

She is a professor of English at her alma mater Miranda House College, Delhi. She has three daughters.

Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia. It earned her substantial success,
both commercially and critically, in India as well as abroad. A Feminist tradition is strongly apparent in her novels. The search for control over one’s destiny is the key theme.

She is quite happy to be dubbed a ‘chronicler of Indian families,’ but do feel free to choose any label that will float your boat. “My own feeling is, describe me any way you like, as long as I am relevant, as long as I am read, I don’t really care,” she says.