Kalpana Swaminathan Explained

Kalpana Swaminathan (born 1956) is an Indian writer from Mumbai. She also writes with Ishrat Syed as Kalpish Ratna. Swaminathan and Syed are both surgeons.^{[1] [2]} Swaminathan won the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Award (Fiction) for Venus Crossing: Twelve Stories of Transit.

Bibliography

• 1993: The True Adventures of Prince Teentang
• 1994: Dattatray's Dinosaur and Other Stories
• 1997: Cryptic Death
• 2000: Ordinary Mr Pai Two Urban Fairy Tales
• 2002: The Weekday Sisters
• 2002: Gavial Avial
• 2003: Ambrosia for Afters
• 2003: Jaldi's Friends
• 2006: The Page Three Murders
• 2006: Bougainvillea House
• 2007: The Gardener's Song
• 2009: Venus Crossing: Twelve Stories of Transit
• 2010: The Monochrome Madonna^[3]
• 2012: I Never Knew It Was You
• 2013: The Secret Gardner
• 2017: Greenlight

Awards and honors

• 2009: Vodafone Crossword Book Award, winner, Venus Crossing
• 2010: The Hindu Best Fiction Award, shortlist, Venus Crossing

External links

• Experimental Writer, by Sitanshi Talati-Parikh, Verve Online, September 2007
• Black, White, and Grey: Exclusive interview with 'The Monochrome Madonna' author Kalpana Swaminathan, by Arun Kale, Helter Skelter Magazine, June 2010

Notes and References

1. News: 'Surgery and writing bring us joy' . 8 July 2010. The Hindu. 26 December 2009.
2. News: Whodunit?. 8 July 2010. The Hindu. 7 June 2010.
3. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/92129/a-crisp-page-turner.html A crisp page turner