Mridula Koshy

Mridula Koshy

Mridula Susan Koshy (born 1969) is an Indian writer. She lives in New Delhi with her three children.

Professional life

She has been a cashier at a Kentucky Fried Chicken, swap-meet sales clerk, backstage dresser at fashion shows, waitress, polisher of silverware, writing adviser, a house painter, receptionist at a law firm, collator of tax forms, union organiser and community organiser.[1]

She currently works as a librarian and community organiser with the Deepalaya Community Library Project, which runs a free community library with hundreds of members in a working class South Delhi neighbourhood and is opening another library in Delhi's Okhla colony.[2]

Her collection of short stories, If It Is Sweet won the 2009 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and was shortlisted for the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Award.[3]

Her novel Not Only the Things That Have Happened (Harper Collins, 2012) was shortlisted for the 2013 Crossword Book Award.[4]

Her stories have appeared in literary journals including Wasafiri, Prairie Fire, The Dalhousie Review and Existere, as well as in anthologies in India, the United Kingdom and Italy.

Bibliography

Reviews

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ "My Little Magazine: Up Close & Personal: Mridula Koshy". mylittlemagazine.blogspot.in. Retrieved 2015-12-29.
  2. ↑ "Dispersing the Light of Knowledge". http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/spectrum/society/dispersing-the-light-of-knowledge/127806.html. Retrieved 2015-12-29. External link in |website= (help)
  3. ↑ Mridula_Koshy Good Reads.
  4. ↑ "Crossword Book Award nominees announced". Retrieved 2015-12-29.

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