Mala Kumar
Birth—1985
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Kumar has worked in international development in several capacities, including with the United Nations (UN) in New York City and Africa. She has worked in English and French.She was a Programme Officer (PO) for a division of the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) called the African Risk Capacity (ARC), which aims to insure African countries likely to suffer from the food security effects of severe weather events, such as drought.
Kumar wrote her debut novel, The Paths of Marriage over a period of about four years. The story, which follows three generations of Indian women and their struggles against both internal and external discrimination, contains some similarities to her own family history. The Paths of Marriage was picked up by the publishing company Bedazzled Ink. The novel is a 2015 finalist for General/Dramatic fiction category of the Golden Crown Literary Society (GCLS) Awards. Recently she announced that she is writing her second novel, titled This Mourning. The novel is about the Virginia Tech Massacre, which occurred in her final semester at the university; Kumar knew several people who died in the shooting.
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