{{Short description|Indian writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Use Indian English|date=October 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Manju Kapur | birth_place = Amritsar, Punjab, India | education = | alma_mater = | spouse = Gun Nidhi Dalmia | children = 3 }}
'''Manju Kapur''' is an Indian novelist. Her first novel, ''Difficult Daughters'', won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia.<ref>{{Cite magazine|author=Anna M. M. Vetticad |date=15 March 1999 |title=Manju Kapur bags Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/eyecatchers/story/19990315-manju-kapur-bags-commonwealth-writers-prize-for-best-first-book-780404-1999-03-15|access-date=25 November 2021|magazine=India Today|language=en}}</ref>
==Personal life== She is married to Gun Nidhi Dalmia; they have three children and four grandchildren, and live in New Delhi.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.ft.com/content/86679b40-6166-11e0-a315-00144feab49a| title=Small talk: Mantri kanpur lyrics of the wrld| work=The Financial Times| author=Anna Metcalfe| date=9 April 2011}}</ref>
==Awards and honors== *2011: DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, short-list, ''The Immigrant'' *1999: Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia, ''Difficult Daughters''
==Works== *''Difficult Daughters'', Penguin India, 1998; Faber and Faber, 1998, {{ISBN|978-0-571-19289-2}} *''A Married Woman'', India Ink, 2003; Faber and Faber, 2003, {{ISBN|978-0-571-21568-3}} *''Home'', Random House India, 2006, {{ISBN|978-81-8400-000-9}}; Faber and Faber, 2006, {{ISBN|978-0-571-22841-6}} *''The Immigrant'', Random House, India, 2008, {{ISBN|978-81-8400-048-1}}; Faber And Faber, 2009, {{ISBN|978-0-571-24407-2}} *''Custody'', Faber & Faber, 2011, {{ISBN|978-0-571-27402-4}} *''Shaping the World: Women Writers on Themselves'', ed. Manju Kapur, Hay House India, 2014. *''Brothers'', Penguin, UK, 2016.
==Television adaptations== {{BLP unreferenced section|date= March 2020}} Manju Kapur's novel "Custody" has been the basis of daily soap operas on several Indian television channels in various languages:
* Yeh Hai Mohabbatein on Star Plus in Hindi under Ekta Kapoor's production house Balaji Telefilms. * Nakalat Saare Ghadle under Swapnil Joshi Productions and Premachi Gosht under Shashi Sumeet Productions on Star Pravah in Marathi. * Pranayam under Sree Saran Productions and Ishtam Mathram under Souparnika Creations on Asianet in Malayalam. * Kalyanam Mudhal Kadhal Varai and Modhalum Kaadhalum on Star Vijay in Tamil. * Avanu Mathe Shravani on Star Suvarna in Kannada. * Ennenno Janmala Bandham on Star Maa in Telugu. * Mon Niye Kachakachi on Star Jalsha in Bengali.
Pardes Mein Hai Mera Dil, telecast on Star Plus, under Ekta Kapoor's production house Balaji Telefilms, is based on Manju Kapur's novel "The Immigrant".
The Married Woman, is a web series, under Ekta Kapoor's production and is available on AltBalaji, it is based on Manju Kapur's novel "A Married Woman".
==Reviews== *{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/5163783/The-Immigrant-by-Manju-Kapur-review.html| title=The Immigrant by Manju Kapur: review| work=The Telegraph| author=Ruth Scurr| date= 16 April 2009}} *{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/custody-by-manju-kapur-2238058.html| title=''Custody'' by Manju Kapur| work=The Independent | author= Arifa Akbar| date=11 March 2011}} *{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/feb/27/custody-manju-kapur-review| title=Custody by Manju Kapur – review| author=Mithu Banerji | work=The Observer| date= 27 February 2011}}
==See also== * List of Indian writers
==References== {{reflist}}
===Further reading=== *Nitonde, Rohidas. ''In Search of a Feminist Writer'', PartridgeIndia, Bloomington, 2014.http://www.flipkart.com/search?q=rohidas+nitonde&as=on&as-show=on&otracker=start&as-pos=1_q https://www.amazon.in/Search-Feminist-Writer-Rohidas-Nitonde/dp/1482833913/ref=la_B00O66VNAK_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1443238147&sr=1-1 *Nitonde, Rohidas. Manju Kapur Bibliography, Google Play Book, 2015. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267928118_Manju_Kapur_A_Bibliography *Askok Kumar, ed., ''Novels of Manju Kapur: A Feministic Study'', Sarup and Sons, New Delhi, 2010. {{ISBN|978-81-7625-990-3}}. *Ram Sharma, ''Rise New Woman: Novels of Manju Kapur'', Manglam Publications, Delhi, 2013. {{ISBN|978-93-81142-77-6}}. *Kalpana Rajput, ''Remapping the Female Map: Jhumpa Lahiri and Manju Kapur'', Yking Books, Jaipur, 2012.
==External links== *[https://jaiarjun.blogspot.com/2008/08/meeting-with-manju-kapur.html "A meeting with Manju Kapur"], ''Jabberwock'', 9 August 2008 *[https://web.archive.org/web/20050224230844/http://sawnet.org/books/authors.php?Kapur+Manju "Manju Kapur"], ''Sawnet'' *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120615153502/http://mh.du.ac.in/facultymh.html Miranda House Faculty] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20151024013451/http://www.mirandahouse.ac.in/mirandahouse/UserSpace/UserName/admin/DynamicFolder/2008-2009/Miranda%20Innovates/amba_dalmia_center.htm Amba Dalmia Center] named in honour of the late daughter of Manju Kapur *[https://archive.today/20130204032125/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080921/jsp/graphiti/story_9859230.jsp "Family Portraits"] Telegraph India, Sunday, 21 September 2008 *[https://www.dal.ca/news/2011/03/02/international.html "Internationalizing the University"] *[http://www.manjukapur.com "Official Website"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127174530/http://www.manjukapur.com/ |date=27 January 2021 }}
{{authority control}} {{Portal bar|Biography|India|Literature}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kapur, Manju}} Category:1948 births Category:Living people Category:20th-century Indian novelists Category:21st-century Indian novelists Category:Novelists from Punjab, India Category:Writers from Amritsar Category:Women writers from Punjab, India Category:Women writers from Delhi Category:20th-century Indian women novelists Category:21st-century Indian women novelists