Indian women authors are rewriting the literary map

Works of Indian women authors have redefined narratives, challenged conventions, and broadened the scope of South Asian literature

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In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore made history as the first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature for Gitanjali, a collection of his Bengali poems that he himself translated into English.

Yet, despite this groundbreaking achievement, Indian literature has remained absent from the Nobel constellation for more than a hundred years—a silence that feels all the more striking given the country’s vast and diverse literary traditions.