Meira Chand
Encyclopedia
Meira Chand is a novelist born in London of India
n and Swiss descent. After living in both Japan and India, she currently resides in Singapore
, and the majority of her novels are based in Japan or India. Her novels examine cultural conflict and the position of the existential outsider. From 2000–2002, she served as the chairperson for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize
for the South Pacific and South East Asia.
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n and Swiss descent. After living in both Japan and India, she currently resides in Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, and the majority of her novels are based in Japan or India. Her novels examine cultural conflict and the position of the existential outsider. From 2000–2002, she served as the chairperson for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Commonwealth Writers is an initiative by the Commonwealth Foundation to unearth, develop and promote the best new fiction from across the Commonwealth. It's flagship are two literary awards and a website...
for the South Pacific and South East Asia.