Namita Gokhale
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| Born | 26 January 1956 Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Occupation | Writer, Publisher, Festival Director |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Period | 1956 – 2016 |
| Subject | Indian Literature, World Literature, Publishing |
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Namita Gokhale is an Indian writer, publisher and festival director. She is the author of fourteen books including eight works of fiction.Things to Leave Behind has been published in November 2016. It is a rich, panoramic historical novel that shows you Kumaon and the Raj as you have never seen them. Illuminated with painstaking detail, taking on the complications of caste, race and culture, this is a compelling historical novel of epic sweep and is described as Namita Gokhale’s most ambitious novel yet.
Things to Leave Behind has received the Best Fiction(English) Jury Award at the Valley of Words International Literature Festival 2017 and is on the long list for the 2018 Dublin Literary Award.
Namita Gokhale was conferred the Centenary National Award for Literature by the Asam Sahitya Sabha in Guwahati in 2017 “for her literary contributions as well as her service to the nation in supporting and showcasing literary talents and creating a literary environment in the country”
Lost in Time:Ghatotkacha and the Game of Illusion her new book for young readers releases 30th November, 2017. It is an intense yet tender look at a rare friendship as well as the abiding puzzles of the past.
She was born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in 1956 and spent her childhood between New Delhi and Nainital, in the foothills of the Himalayas. A Kumaoni by birth, she married to Rajiv Gokhale when she was eighteen. Gokhale dropped out of college after a conflict over the bias against Indian literatures in the curriculum. She then published the film magazine Super from Bombay in the late seventies.
Namita Gokhale is the author of fourteen books, including eight previous works of fiction and several works of non-fiction.Her debut novel Paro: Dreams of Passion, first published in 1984, was a satire on the elite of Bombay and Delhi created a furore due to its frank sexual humour.Gods Graves and Grandmother an ironic fable about street life in Delhi was adapted into a musical play. Gokhale was diagnosed with cancer when she was just thirty-five and her husband died a few years later. The experience of illness and loss informed her later books A Himalayan Love Story, The Book of Shadows and Shakuntala, the Play of Memory.
Her books of non-fiction include Mountain Echoes which explores the Kumaoni way of life through the eyes of four highly talented and individualistic women and The Book of Shiva, an introduction to Shaivite philosophy and mythology. She had retold the Indian epic The Mahabharata, in an illustrated version for young and first time readers in The Puffin Mahabharata.The anthology In Search of Sita – Revisiting Mythology, co-edited with Dr. Malashri Lal, presents fresh interpretations of this enigmatic goddess and her indelible impact on the lives of Indian women through essays, conversations and commentaries. Priya: In Incredible Indyaa, resurrected the iconic characters from her debut novel Paro.
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