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'''Kamal Desai''' (10 November 1928&ndash;17 June 2011) was an [[India]]n novelist writing in [[Marathi language|Marathi]].<ref name=women/><br />
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She was born in Yamkan Mardi in the [[Belgaum district]]. She studied in [[Belgaum]],<ref name=women/> going on to complete a master's degree in Marathi at [[University of Mumbai|Bombay University]].<ref name=miller>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y-TMhtk5AUYC&pg=PA81 |title=Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing |pages=81–82 |last=Miller |first=Jane Eldridge |year=2001 |isbn=0415159806}}</ref> Desai began writing in 1955 and retired to [[Pune]].<ref name=women>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OjZYf9Xf9bcC&pg=PA265 |title=Women Writing in India: The twentieth century |pages=265–67 |last=Tharu |first=Susie J |author2=Lalita, Ke |year=1993 |isbn=1558610294}}</ref><br />
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She is best known for her 1975 novel ''Hat Ghalnari Bai'' (Woman Wearing a Hat).<ref name=women/><br />
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== Selected works<ref name=women/> ==<br />
* ''Rang'' (Colours), stories (1962)<br />
* ''Ratrandin Amha Yuddhacha Prasang'' (We confront the war day and night), novel (1963)<br />
* ''Kala Surya'' (Dark sun), novel (1972)<br />
* ''Rang-2'', stories (1998)<ref name=miller/><br />
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