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'''Indu Sundaresan''' is an [[India|Indian-American]] author of historical fiction.<ref>[http://www.thehindu.com/arts/do-you-know-what-we-read-last-year/article4253261.ece "Do you know what we read last year?"] ''The Hindu''.</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
She was born and raised in India as the daughter of an [[Indian Air Force]] pilot,<ref name="bio">{{cite web|title=Indu Sundaresan: Biography|url=http://www.indusundaresan.com/bio.aspx|website=www.indusundaresan.com|access-date=19 June 2017|archive-date=27 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180527153220/http://indusundaresan.com/Bio.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> Group Captain R. Sundaresan,<ref name="bio"/> who died in a crash while on duty. Her mother's name is Madhuram Sundaresan.<ref name="bio"/> The family then moved to [[Bangalore]], where she collected books eagerly. She then migrated to the United States for graduate studies at the [[University of Delaware]]. She has an [[Master of Science|MS]] in operations research and an [[Master of Arts|MA]] in economics.<ref name="bio" /> She is married and lives in [[Seattle, Washington]] with her husband and daughter.<ref name="About">{{Cite web|url=http://www.indusundaresan.com/about/|title=About|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-10}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Her first novel ''The Twentieth Wife'' is about how a young widow named [[Mehrunissa]], daughter of Persian refugees and wife of an Afghan commander, becomes Empress of the Mughal Empire under the name of [[Nur Jahan]] after marrying jahangir.<ref>[https://archive.today/20130216054038/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2003/02/05/stories/2003020500260400.htm "Mesmerised by the Mughal era"] ''The Hindu.''</ref><br />
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Her second novel ''The Feast of Roses'' is the sequel to ''The Twentieth Wife'' and focuses on Nur Jahan exerting authority granted by her husband [[Jahangir]] during the sixteen years of her marriage to the emperor.<br />
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''Shadow Princess'' is the third novel in the Taj trilogy set after the succession of [[Shahjahan]] (Prince Khurram) whose chief queen [[Mumtaz Mahal]] dies in childbirth and then their daughter, [[Jahanara Begum|Jahanara]] takes centre stage in the politics of the court.<ref>[https://www.thehindu.com/books/Entranced-by-the-past/article15451034.ece "Entranced by the past"] ''The Hindu''</ref><br />
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She is also the author of ''The Splendor of Silence'', historical fiction set in a fictional Indian princely state just before Indian independence in 1947. Her work has been translated into some 23 languages worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indusundaresan.com/about/|title=About |access-date=3 March 2021}}</ref><br />
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Her short fiction has appeared in The Vincent Brothers Review and on iVillage.com.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Vincent Brothers Review Issue #19—Home |url=https://thevincentbrothersreview.com/product/the-vincent-brothers-review-issue-19-home/ |access-date=2023-06-19 |website=The Vincent Brothers Review Literary Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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==Awards==<br />
* [[Washington State Book Award]] for ''The Twentieth Wife'' in 2003.<ref name="About"/><br />
* Light of India award for Excellence in Literature<ref name="indusundaresan">{{cite web |title=About |url=https://www.indusundaresan.com/about/ |website=indusundaresan.com|language=en-US|access-date=2020-07-18}}</ref><br />
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== Works ==<br />
;Taj Mahal trilogy<br />
* ''Twentieth Wife'' (2002)<br />
* ''The Feast of Roses'' (2003)<br />
* ''Shadow Princess'' (2010)<br />
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* ''The Splendour of Silence'' (2006)<br />
* ''In the Convent of Little Flowers'' (2008)<br />
* ''The Mountain of Light'' (2013)<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906123221/http://www.powells.com/essays/sundaresan.html |date=September 6, 2015 |title=A Reader and Writer Be }}, essay by the author<!-- goes back to https://web.archive.org/web/20030605012603/http://powells.com/fromtheauthor/sundaresan.html --><br />
* [http://calitreview.com/topics/india/83/ "An Interview with Novelist Indu Sundaresan"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080507011137/http://calitreview.com/topics/india/83/ |date=2008-05-07 }} ''California Literary Review'', 3 April 2007.<br />
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