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    Kamala Das was an Indian author who wrote openly about female sexuality and the experience of being an Indian woman. She wrote in both English and Malayalam and published several poetry collections, novels, short stories and memoirs. Das was born into a high-status family in Kerala and married young before pursuing her writing career. Her most famous work was an autobiography that was controversial for its intimate details of her life. Later in life, Das converted to Islam and took on a new name.

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    Kamala Das was an Indian author who wrote openly about female sexuality and the experience of being an Indian woman. She wrote in both English and Malayalam and published several poetry collections, novels, short stories and memoirs. Das was born into a high-status family in Kerala and married young before pursuing her writing career. Her most famous work was an autobiography that was controversial for its intimate details of her life. Later in life, Das converted to Islam and took on a new name.

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    18/11/2021, 15:38 Kamala Das -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

    Kamala Das
    Kamala Das, Malayalam pen name Madhavikutty, Muslim name Kamala Surayya, (born
    March 31, 1934, Thrissur, Malabar Coast [now in Kerala], British India—died May 31,
    2009, Pune, India), Indian author who wrote openly and frankly about female sexual desire
    and the experience of being an Indian woman. Das was part of a generation of Indian
    writers whose work centred on personal rather than colonial experiences, and her short
    stories, poetry, memoirs, and essays brought her respect and notoriety in equal measures.
    Das wrote both in English (mostly poetry) and, under the pen name Madhavikutty, in the
    Malayalam language of southern India.

    Das was born into a high-status family. Her mother, Nalapat Balamani Amma, was a well-
    known poet, and her father, V.M. Nair, was an automobile company executive and a
    journalist. She grew up in what is now Kerala and in Calcutta (now Kolkata), where her
    father worked. She began writing poetry when she was a child. When she was 15 years old,
    she married Madhava Das, a banking executive many years her senior, and they moved to
    Bombay (now Mumbai). Das had three sons and did her writing at night.

    Das’s poetry collections included Summer in Calcutta (1965), The Descendants (1967), and
    The Old Playhouse, and Other Poems (1973). Subsequent English-language works included
    the novel Alphabet of Lust (1976) and the short stories “A Doll for the Child Prostitute”
    (1977) and “Padmavati the Harlot” (1992). Notable among her many Malayalam works
    were the short-story collection Thanuppu (1967; “Cold”) and the memoir
    Balyakalasmaranakal (1987; “Memories of Childhood”). Perhaps her best-known work
    was an autobiography, which first appeared as a series of columns in the weekly
    Malayalanadu, then in Malayalam as Ente Katha (1973), and finally in English as My Story
    (1976). A shockingly intimate work, it came to be regarded as a classic. In later life Das
    said that parts of the book were fictional.

    In 1999 she controversially converted to Islam, renaming herself Kamala Surayya. She
    received many literary awards, including the Asian World Prize for Literature in 1985.

    The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaThis article was most recently revised and updated by Patricia Bauer.

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    Article Title:
    Kamala Das
    Website Name:
    Encyclopaedia Britannica
    Publisher:
    Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
    Date Published:
    27 May 2021
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    https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kamala-Das
    Access Date:
    November 18, 2021

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