Daisy Hasan Explained

Daisy Hasan (Assamese: ডেইজী হাচান) is an Indian-English author from Shillong, Meghalaya and is the author of The To-Let House. It was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008.^[1]

Biography

Daisy Hasan teaches at the University of Cardiff, Wales. She is a writer and filmmaker, interested in theatre and video films. She writes regularly for national newspapers, acts in street theatre and is currently teaching a course on Bollywood films.^[2] She holds a PhD from Swansea University, UK. She is currently engaged in a study of South Asian women’s art in conflict situations at the University of Leeds, UK and is working on her second novel to be set in Britain.^[3]

Her book The To-Let House is also shortlisted for The Hindu Best Fiction Award in 2010^[4]

She also took part in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six Books where she wrote a piece based upon a book of the King James Bible^[5] And she contributed many books to English language "

Notes and References

1. Web site: Divya Kumar . The Homecoming . Beta.thehindu.com . 2010-10-10 . 2012-06-18.
2. Web site: Authors page . Tarabooks . 2012-06-18 . 20 September 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160920090151/http://www.tarabooks.com/about/authors/ . dead .
3. Web site: Jaipur Literature Festival . Jaipur Literature Festival . 2012-06-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120308232732/http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/daisy-hasan/ . 8 March 2012 . dmy .
4. Web site: The Hindu Best Fiction Award 2010 Shortlist . Thehindu.com . 2010-10-01 . 2012-06-18.
5. Web site: Bush Theatre . 19 June 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110704090950/http://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/biography/writers/ . 4 July 2011 .