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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