MEENA KANDASAMY | மீனா கந்தசாமி
POET & WRITER
"The poet, novelist, activist & academic Meena Kandasamy is a one-woman, agitprop literary-political movement."
James Kidd, Independent
"One of fiction's most fiery and unclassifiable polemicists"
Claire Armitstead, The Guardian
"Only in her mid-30s, Meena Kandasamy is building a spiky, angular, fiercely singular corpus."
Shougat Dasgupta, India Today
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOVELS
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The Gypsy Goddess, Atlantic Books (London) / HarperCollins (New Delhi), April 2014.
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When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife, Atlantic Books (London), Juggernaut (New Delhi), April 2017. Europa Editions (USA, 2020)
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Exquisite Cadavers, Atlantic Books (London)/ Context (Westland, New Delhi), Nov 2019.
POETRY
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Touch, Peacock Books (Mumbai) 2006: out of print.
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Ms Militancy, Navayana (New Delhi) 2010.
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#ThisPoemWillProvokeYou & Other Poems, chapbook, HarperCollins India, 2015.
NON-FICTION (.ESSAYS & BIOGRAPHY)
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(with M.Nisar): Ayyankali: A Dalit Leader of Organic Protest, Other Books (Calicut), 2007.
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The Orders Were To Rape You: Tigresses in the Tamil Eelam Struggle, Navayana (New Delhi), 2021.
TRANSLATIONS
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Talisman: Extreme Emotions of Dalit Liberation, Thol. Thirumaavalavan, Samya (Kolkata) 2003.
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Uproot Hindutva: The Fiery Voice of the Liberation Panthers, Thol. Thirumaavalavan, Samya (Kolkata), 2004.
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Why Were Women Enslaved, Thanthai Periyar E.V.Ramasamy, The Periyar Self-Respect Propaganda Institution (Chennai), 2007.
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Waking is Another Dream: Poems on the Genocide in Tamil Eelam, D.Ravikumar (editor), Ravishanker (co-translator) Navayana (New Delhi), 2010.
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(editor/translator): Desires Become Demons: Poems of Four Tamil Woman Poets: Malathi Maithri, Salma, Kutti Revathi, Sukirtharani, Tilted Axis Press (Sheffield), 2018.
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Women Dreaming (novel), Salma, Tilted Axis Press (UK)/ Penguin Random House (India), October 2020.