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'''Abha Dawesar''' (born 1 January 1974<ref name="Oh2009">{{cite book|last=Oh|first=Seiwoong|title=Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oqN8vZqOGp0C&pg=PA60|year=2009|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=9781438120881|pages=60}}</ref>) is an Indian-born novelist writing in English. She was awarded a New York Foundation of the Arts fiction fellowship. Her 2005 novel ''[[Babyji]]'' won the [[Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction]] and the [[Stonewall Book Award]]. She lives in [[New York City]].<ref name="Oh2009" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/H1000172179/LitRC?sid=LitRC&xid=c5c3aa98|title=Abha Dawesar|date=2007|website=Contemporary Authors Online|access-date=13 October 2018}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Abha Dawesar was born in [[New Delhi]].<ref name=":0" /> She moved to the United States to attend [[Harvard University]], where she graduated in 1995.<ref name=":0" />

Before publishing her award-winning second novel, ''Babyji'' (2005), Dawesar was working at a global financial services firm in Manhattan. She quit her job to devote her time to writing.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kamesawaran|first=Shilpa|date=Summer 2011|title=Interview: Abha Dawesar|url=https://urbanconfustionsjournal.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/dawesar-2011.pdf|journal=Urban Confustions Journal|issue=1}}</ref>

Dawesar has been exhibiting photography, visual, and video art since being a student at Harvard in 1995. Her work has been exhibited at various galleries and museums in the United States and abroad.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.abhadawesar.com/|title=Abha Dawesar|website=abhadawesar.com|access-date=2018-10-13|archive-date=30 June 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080630215915/http://www.abhadawesar.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Since 2013, Dawesar has been speaking on issues around digital technology and its effects on social behavior and experience.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2015/09/14/440306123/how-do-our-screens-distort-our-sense-of-time|title=Abha Dawesar: How Do Our Screens Distort Our Sense of Time?|work=NPR.org|access-date=2018-10-13|language=en}}</ref>

== Awards ==

* Fiction Fellow, New York Foundation for the Arts (2000)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/NYFA_WebAssets/Pictures/6b2ad3f7-2970-4032-9d75-d886c72943cd.pdf|title=New York Foundation for the Arts Directory of Art Fellows, 1985-2013|publisher=New York Foundation for the Arts|year=2013|location=New York, NY}}</ref><ref name=":0" />
* [[Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction]], for ''[[Babyji]]'' (2005)<ref name=":1" />
* [[Stonewall Book Award]], American Library Association, for ''[[Babyji]]'' (2006)<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ala.org/rt/glbtrt/award/stonewall/honored|title=Stonewall Book Awards List|date=9 September 2009|work=Round Tables|access-date=2018-10-13|language=en}}</ref>

==Bibliography==

===Novels===
* ''Miniplanner'' ([[2000 in literature|2000]]) (published in India by [[Penguin Books]] under the title ''The Three of Us'')
* ''[[Babyji]]'' ([[2005 in literature|2005]]) (winner of the [[Stonewall Book Award]] and [[Lambda Literary Award]], 2006)<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/04/09/lambda-literary-awards-2005/ |title=18th Annual Lambda Literary Awards |year=2006 |publisher=Lambda Literary |accessdate=18 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211105334/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/04/09/lambda-literary-awards-2005/ |archivedate=11 December 2013 }}</ref>
* ''That Summer in Paris'' ([[2006 in literature|2006]])<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1204661,00.html|title=That Summer in Paris Review|last=Reese|first=Jennifer|date=21 June 2006|work=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|accessdate=18 November 2014}}</ref>
* ''Family Values ''(2011)
* ''Sensorium'' (2012)
* ''Madison Square Park'' (2016)

===Short stories===
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* ''The Good King'' in {{cite book|last1=Menon|first1=Anil|last2=Singh|first2=Vandana|title=Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Ramayana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ee_vAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT47|year=2014|publisher=Zubaan Books|isbn=9789383074174|pages=47}}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.abhadawesar.com/}} Not Found
* [http://www.cerebration.org/abhadawesar.html An interview with Abha Dawesar]
* {{TED speaker}}
** [http://www.ted.com/talks/abha_dawesar_life_in_the_digital_now Abha Dawesar: Life in the "digital now" (TEDGlobal 2013)]

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[[Category:Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction winners]]
[[Category:Stonewall Book Award winners]]
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[[Category:21st-century Indian women writers]]
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