Sunday 2 March 2014

Preeta Samarasan

Preeta Samarasan


Prata Samarasan is a Malaysian author who writes in English. She was born in Batu Gajah and received her education at Sekolah Menengah Convent School, Armand Hammer United World College of the American West, Hamilton College, University of Rochester and University of Michigan. Her first hovel was 'Evening is the Whole Day' which won the Hopwood Novel Award. She was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers prize in 2009. Samarasan was also on the long list for the Orange Prize for fiction. Her short story 'Our House Stands in a City of Flowers' won the Asian American Writers' Workshop/ Hyphen Short Story award in 2007. She is now living in the Limousin region of France with her husband and daughter.

(Source: Wikipedia)


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