Shashi Deshpande

About Shashi Deshpande

Novelist and short story writer, Shashi Deshpande has eleven novels, two crime novellas, a number of short story collections, two books of essays, and four children’s books to her credit. Shashi Deshpande was awarded the Padma Shri in 2009. Her literary memoir Listen to Me was published in 2018. Three of her novels have received awards, including the Sahitya Akademi award for That Long Silence, Penguin, in 1990. She has translated works from Kannada into English including two plays by her father, Adya Rangacharya (Shriranga), as well as his memoirs, and also a novel from Marathi into English. Her own work has been translated into various Indian and European languages. Her latest publication is titled Subversions: Essays on Life and Literature ,Context Books, 2021. In 2015 she resigned from her positions in the Sahitya Akademi to protest the silence of the institution following the murder of writer, scholar and academician, M M Kalburgi. Shashi Deshpande’s work has appeared previously in Out of Print.