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'''Anjana Appachana''' is a novelist of [[India]]n origin who lives in the [[United States]]. She has written a book of short stories titled ''Incantations'' and a novel titled ''Listening Now''.<br />
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==Career==<br />
Her first book ''Incantations and Other Stories'' was published in England by [[Virago Press|Virago]] in 1991 and in the US by [[Rutgers University Press]] in 1992. The book was reissued in India by [[Penguin Books|Penguin]] in 2006. The stories in it are set in the early eighties in India. One of her short stories titled "Sharmaji" was included in ''Mirrorwork: Fifty Years of Indian Writing'', a collection edited by [[Salman Rushdie]] and Elizabeth West. Appachana received the [[O. Henry Award|O. Henry Festival Prize]] and a creative writing fellowship from the [[National Endowment for the Arts]] in the US.<ref name="Rediff">{{cite web|title=Women Writers of Indian Diaspora Create A Big Impact|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/aug/23us1.htm|website=Rediff|accessdate=14 August 2014}}</ref><br />
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Her first novel and second book is titled ''Listening Now'', and was published by [[Random House]] in 1997. In it, six women tell the story of two lovers, Padma and Karan, spanning sixteen years. The novel is set in [[Bangalore]], [[Delhi]] and [[Lucknow]].<ref name="Sawnet">{{cite web|title=Book Review|url=http://www.sawnet.org/books/reviews.php?Listening+now|publisher=Sawnet (South Asian Women's Network)|accessdate=14 August 2014}}</ref> Speaking about the perception of women writing in India, she has said: <blockquote>"Writing is not deemed legitimate work by anyone. They assume that it can be put aside for anything and everything -- for housework, for house guests, for cooking... Now tell me, how many people who work outside the house do you know who would take time off from their work to cook a meal or do groceries or laundry or look after house guests? None, right?...That's because they work outside the house and because they have a regular income which apparently legitimizes their work."<ref name="Sawnet" /> </blockquote>In the same interview, Appachana adds that a writer's life is comparatively more comfortable in America than in India.<ref name="Rediff" /><br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070128063638/http://www.indiastar.com/mukherjee2.html Review by Meenakshi Mukherjee]<br />
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