Anjana appachana biography

American novelist

Anjana Appachana is an American novelist of Indian descent.^[1] She has written a book of short stories titled Incantations and a novel titled Listening Now.

Anjana Appachana was born and raised in India, and educated at.

Anjana Appachana was born and raised in India, and educated at.

Anjana Appachana is an American novelist of Indian descent.

Anjana Appachana is an American novelist of Indian descent.

Anjana Appachana was born in India of Coorg (Karnataka) origin and educated at Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya, Gwalior, Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Anjana Appachana was born and educated in India, where she did her BA (Hons) in English at Delhi University and her MA in Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru.

Her upcoming novel, Fear and Lovely, will be published in early 2023.^[2]

Career

Her first book Incantations and Other Stories was published in England by Virago in 1991 and in the US by Rutgers University Press in 1992.

The book was reissued in India by Penguin in 2006. The stories in it are set in the early eighties in India. One of her short stories titled "Sharmaji" was included in Mirrorwork: Fifty Years of Indian Writing, a collection edited by Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West.

Appachana received the O. Henry Festival Prize and a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in the US.^[3]

Her first novel and second book is titled Listening Now, and was published by Random House in 1997.

In it, six women tell the