Jaishree Misra

{{short description|Indian author}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Use Indian English|date=October 2016}} {{Infobox writer  | name = Jaishree Misra | image = Jayasree Misra 2.jpg | imagesize =200px | caption = Jaishree Misra in a literary programme at Sharjah International Book Fair on 24 November 2011 | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1961}}<ref name="g223"/> | birth_place = New Delhi, India<ref name="g223">{{cite book | chapter=Mishra, Jaishree| first=S|last=Keerthana| editor-last1=Jaidka | editor-first1=Manju | editor-last2=Dhar | editor-first2=Tej N. | title=The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English | publisher=Taylor & Francis | date= 2023 | isbn=978-1-000-93315-4 | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ajb-EAAAQBAJ&dq=Jaishree+Mishra&pg=PA271 | access-date=3 September 2025 | pages=271–2}}</ref> | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Writer | nationality = Indian | alma_mater= | genre = Contemporary | subject = Fiction, non-fiction, novels | movement = | signature = | website ={{URL|http://www.jaishreemisra.com/}} }} {{Not to be confused with|Jayshree Misra Tripathi}} '''Jaishree Misra''' (born 1961) is an Indian writer.<ref name="g223"/> {{As of|2023}}, she had written eight novels.<ref name="g223"/>

==Books==

Misra's first novel, ''Ancient Promises'' (2002), is on the syllabus at several universities.<ref name="g223"/> It has been described as exploring "the notions of women's autonomy and agency", and is partly autobiographical.<ref name="g223"/>

Her fourth novel, ''Rani'', is historical fiction based on the life of Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi.<ref name="g223"/><ref name="g815">{{cite book | last=Singh | first=Harleen | title=The Rani of Jhansi: Gender, History, and Fable in India | publisher=Cambridge University Press | date=9 June 2014 | isbn=978-1-107-04280-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=joHRAwAAQBAJ&q=Jaishree%2520Mishra&pg=PA11 | access-date=3 September 2025 | page=11}}</ref> It was published by Penguin in 2007 and banned soon after by the Uttar Pradesh state government in India, as it represented Rani Lakshmibai as having a love affair with a white British man.<ref name="g223"/><ref name="g815"/>

She is the editor of ''Of Mothers and Others: Stories, Essays, Poems'' (2013), a collection of writing about motherhood.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Koppikar |first1=Smruti |title=Review: Of Mothers and Others |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/books/review-of-mothers-and-others/article1-1038140.aspx |access-date=3 September 2025 |work=Hindustan Times |date=5 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140409002606/http://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/books/review-of-mothers-and-others/article1-1038140.aspx |archive-date=9 April 2014}}</ref>

Misra has written a memoir, ''A House for Mr Mishra''.<ref name="g223"/>

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== {{commons category}} * [http://www.jaishreemisra.com Jaishree Misra] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190307080341/http://www.jaishreemisra.com/ |date=7 March 2019 }} * [http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/banning-books-will-kill-literary-genres-writer-jaishree-misra/article5766557.ece On Banning Books in the Hindu newspaper] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20140408222429/http://alpha.authortv.in/author/jaishree-misra Author TV interview at the Bangalore litfest] * [http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/society/i-deplore-duplicity-jaishree-mishra/article3844028.ece Proust interview in The Hindu] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20140408212029/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/hard-work-is-always-energising-jaishree-misra/186203-40-103.html Interview on CNN-IBN] * [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Khushwant-was-a-very-nice-man-to-know-Writer-Jaishree-Misra/articleshow/32379609.cms On Khushwant Singh]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Misra, Jaishree}} Category:1961 births Category:Living people Category:Novelists from Delhi Category:21st-century Indian novelists Category:Women writers from Delhi Category:Writers from New Delhi Category:Writers from Delhi Category:21st-century Indian women novelists