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Anita Nair
Anita Nair is a popular Indian English writer. She was born at Shornur in the state of Kerala. She was working as the creative director of an advertising agency in Bangalore when she wrote her first book, a collection of short stories called Satyr of the Subway, which she sold to Har-Anand Press. The book won her a fellowship from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Her second book was published by Penguin India, and was the first book by an Indian author to be published by Picador USA. She has also written The Puffin Book of Myths and Legends (2004), a children's book on myths and legends. Anita has also edited Where the Rain is Born (2003). Anita's writings about Kerala and her poetry have been included in The Poetry India Collection and a British Council Poetry Workshop Anthology. She has also written a few other books, such as Mistress (2003),Adventures of Nonu, the Skating Squirrel (2006), Living Next Door to Alise (2007) and Magical Indian Myths (2008). Her works also include many travelogues. Her books have been published in several languages around the world. Her novels The Better Man and Ladies Coupe have been translated into 21 languages around the world.Ladies Coupe (2001) was rated as one of 2002's top five books of the year. Though Anitha nair has written many novels the famous novel of mine s LADIES COUPE which was published in 2001. The story of the novel is woman's search for strength and independence. Akhilandeshwari, Akhila for short: forty-five and single, an income-tax clerk, and a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life - always the daughter, the sister, the aunt, the provider.Until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari, gloriously alone for the first time in her life and determined to break free of all that her conservative Tamil Brahmin life has bound her to.In the intimate atmosphere of the ladies coupé which she shares with five other women.
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