Abha Dawesar Explained

Abha Dawesar
Birth Name:	Abha Dawesar
Birth Date:	1974 1, df=yes
Birth Place:	New Delhi, India
Occupation:	Novelist
Nationality:	Indian
Period:	2000–present
Notableworks:	Babyji, Family Values, That Summer in Paris, Miniplanner

Abha Dawesar (born 1 January 1974^[1]) is an Indian-born novelist writing in English. Her novels include Babyji, Family Values, That Summer in Paris, and Miniplanner.^[2] Her 2005 novel Babyji won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the Stonewall Book Award.

Biography

Abha Dawesar was born in New Delhi. She moved to the United States to attend Harvard University, where she graduated in 1995.

Before publishing her award-winning second novel, Babyji (2005), Dawesar was working at a global financial services firm in Manhattan. She quit her job to devote her time to writing.^[3]

Dawesar has been exhibiting photography, visual, and video art since she was a student at Harvard. Her work has been exhibited at various galleries and museums in the United States and abroad.^[4]

In 2010, she wrote part of the screenplay for the film Love and the Cities, directed by Rodrigo Bernardo.^[5]

Since 2013, Dawesar has been speaking on issues around digital technology and its effects on social behavior and experience.^[6]

Awards

• Fiction Fellow, New York Foundation for the Arts (2000)^[7]
• Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, for Babyji (2005)
• Stonewall Book Award, American Library Association, for Babyji (2006)^[8]

Bibliography

Novels

• Miniplanner (2000) (published in India by Penguin Books under the title The Three of Us)
• Babyji (2005) (winner of the Stonewall Book Award and Lambda Literary Award, 2006)^[9]
• That Summer in Paris (2006)^{[10] [11]}
• Family Values (2011)
• Sensorium (2012)
• Madison Square Park (2016)

Short stories

• The Good King in Book: Menon. Anil. Singh. Vandana. Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Ramayana. 2014. Zubaan Books. 9789383074174. 47.

Personal life

She lives in New York City.^[12]

External links

• Not Found
• An interview with Abha Dawesar
  • • Abha Dawesar: Life in the "digital now" (TEDGlobal 2013)

Notes and References

1. Book: Oh, Seiwoong. Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature. 2009. Infobase Publishing. 9781438120881. 60.
2. News: Rajan . Anjana . A cook in her books . 20 September 2021 . . January 12, 2011.
3. Kamesawaran. Shilpa. Summer 2011. Interview: Abha Dawesar. Urban Confustions Journal. 1. 13 October 2018. 14 October 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181014010203/https://urbanconfustionsjournal.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/dawesar-2011.pdf. dead.
4. Web site: Abha Dawesar. abhadawesar.com. 2018-10-13. 30 June 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080630215915/http://www.abhadawesar.com/. dead.
5. News: Nath . Dipanita . Love Bard . 20 September 2021 . . January 20, 2011.
6. News: Abha Dawesar: How Do Our Screens Distort Our Sense of Time?. NPR.org. 2018-10-13. en.
7. Book: New York Foundation for the Arts Directory of Art Fellows, 1985-2013. New York Foundation for the Arts. 2013. New York, NY.
8. News: Stonewall Book Awards List. 9 September 2009. Round Tables. 2018-10-13. en.
9. Web site: 18th Annual Lambda Literary Awards . 2006 . Lambda Literary . 18 November 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131211105334/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/04/09/lambda-literary-awards-2005/ . 11 December 2013 .
10. That Summer in Paris Review. Reese. Jennifer. 21 June 2006. Entertainment Weekly. 18 November 2014. 29 November 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141129031302/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1204661,00.html. dead.
11. News: That Summer in Paris . 20 September 2021 . . March 6, 2006.
12. Web site: Abha Dawesar. 2007. Contemporary Authors Online. 13 October 2018.