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'''Cauvery Madhavan''' is an Indian born writer living in [[Ireland]] who uses her experience of being a migrant in her writing.

==Biography==

Cauvery Madhavan was born in [[Chennai|Madras]], India to Major C. Guruswamy and Bollamma Guruswamy where she worked as a copy writer. She married and in 1987 she and her husband, surgeon Prakash Madhavan, moved to [[Straffan]], County Kildare, Ireland. They have three children. Madhavan had her first novel published in 2000. Madhavan credited her first novel to the Anam Cara writers' and artists' retreat in West Cork where she began it. Her second novel came out in 2003 and her third in 2020. Her work relates Ireland and Europe with India. Madhavan also writes for the [[Irish Times]] and wrote for the [[Evening Herald]] and [[Travel Extra]].<ref name="The Irish Times 2013">{{cite web | title=Practising yoga does not make you less Catholic | website=The Irish Times | date=2013-03-21 | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/practising-yoga-does-not-make-you-less-catholic-1.4058013 | access-date=2019-12-12}}</ref><ref name="Ricorso">{{cite web | title=Cauvery Madhavan | website=Ricorso | url=http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/m/Madhavan_C/life.htm | access-date=2019-12-12}}</ref><ref name="The Irish Times 2019">{{cite web | title='Paddy Indian' welcomed by god of fun | website=The Irish Times | date=2019-12-10 | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/paddy-indian-welcomed-by-god-of-fun-1.327426 | access-date=2019-12-12}}</ref><ref name="BBC 2002">{{cite web | title=Manchester Masti - Cauvery Madhavan Interview | website=BBC | date=2002-12-02 | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/communities/masti/2002/12/02/cauvery_madhavan_interview.shtml | access-date=2019-12-12}}</ref><ref name="Ray">{{cite book | last1=Ray | first1=M.K. | last2=Kundu | first2=R. | title=Studies in Women Writers in English | publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Distributors | series=Studies in Women Writers in English | issue=v. 6 | year=2004 | isbn=978-81-269-0816-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C34GICexkPMC&pg=PA123 | access-date=2019-12-12 | page=123}}</ref><ref name="Tunca">{{cite book | last1=Tunca | first1=D. | last2=Wilson | first2=J. | title=Postcolonial Gateways and Walls: Under Construction | publisher=Brill | series=Cross/Cultures | year=2016 | isbn=978-90-04-33768-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CYFyDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA329 | access-date=2019-12-12 | page=329}}</ref><ref name="Wulff">{{cite book | last=Wulff | first=H. | title=Rhythms of Writing: An Anthropology of Irish Literature | publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing | year=2017 | isbn=978-1-4742-4415-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bV4zDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA123 | access-date=2019-12-12 | page=123}}</ref><ref name="Tucker">{{cite book | last=Tucker | first=Amanda | title=Literary visions of multicultural Ireland | chapter=Strangers in a strange land?: the new Irish multicultural fiction | publisher=Manchester University Press | date=2014-02-28 | isbn=978-0-7190-8928-2 | doi=10.7228/manchester/9780719089282.003.0003 | pages=50–63}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book | title=Paddy Indian | publisher=BlackAmber Books | year=2001 | isbn=978-1-901969-04-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1hIMAAAACAAJ}}
* {{cite book | title=The Uncoupling | publisher=BlackAmber | year=2003 | isbn=978-1-901969-10-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DghbAAAAMAAJ}}
* {{cite book | title=The Tainted | publisher=HopeRoad Publishing Limited | year=2020 | isbn=978-1-9164671-8-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ADJbyAEACAAJ }}

==References and sources==
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[[Category:People from Chennai]]
[[Category:Irish women writers]]
[[Category:Indian women writers]]
[[Category:Irish women journalists]]
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