Githa Hariharan is an Indian author and editor based in New Delhi

New Delhi

New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...

. Her first novel, The Thousand Faces of Night, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

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 in 1993.

Biography

Githa Hariharan was born in Coimbatore and grew up in Bombay and Manila. She obtained a BA (in English) from Bombay University and a MA (in Communications) from Fairfield University

Fairfield University

Fairfield University is a private, co-educational undergraduate and master's level teaching-oriented university located in Fairfield, Connecticut, in the New England region of the United States. It was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1942, and today is one of 28 member institutions of the...

. She first worked in the Public Broadcasting System in New York and then with a publishing firm as an editor in India. She currently works as a freelance editor. In her personal life, she, along with her husband, won the right to have the children named after her (instead of carrying the father's name); in this famous case argued by Indira Jaising

Indira Jaising

Indira Jaising is a leftist Indian lawyer. She went to school in Mumbai and graduated in Bangalore, before getting her degree in law in 1962. Jaising became the second woman to be designated as a Senior Advocate by the High Court of Bombay in 1986 .She became the first woman to be appointed...

, the Supreme Court agreed that the mother was also a "natural guardian" of the child.

Author

• The Winning Team, Illustrator Taposhi Ghoshal, Rupa & Co., 2004, ISBN 9788129105707; Random House Digital, Inc., 2004, ISBN 9781400033379
• When Dreams Travel, Picador, 1999, ISBN 9780330372367; Penguin Group Australia, 2008, ISBN 9780143204282
• The Ghosts of Vasu Master, Viking, Penguin Books India, 1994; Penguin Group, 1998, ISBN 9780140247244
• The Art of Dying, Penguin Books, 1993, ISBN 9780140233391
• The Thousand Faces of Night, Penguin Books, 1992; Women's Press, 1996, ISBN 9780704344655
• Fugitive Histories, Penguin Group, 2009, ISBN 9780670082179

Editor

• A Southern Harvest, Kath, 1993, ISBN 9788185586106
• Sorry, Best Friend!, Illustrated Ranjan De, Tulika Publishers, 1997, ISBN 9788186895009

External links

• "Githa Hariharan", Sawnet
• About Githa Hariharan, Another Subcontinent
• Professors under Siege: Githa Hariharan and A.S. Byatt, Amardeep Singh, April 18, 2005
• Githa Hariharan Homepage