Militancy (2010), and the critically acclaimed novel, Gypsy Goddess. She has published two collections of poetry, Touch (2006) and Ms. Meena Kandasamy is a poet, fiction writer, translator and activist who was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Her latest novel, Exquisite Cadavers, is an extraordinary formally-inventive, beautiful at sentence-level novella written in response to the reaction to the reception of When I Hit You, with Meena deciding to write a novel “based on a story as removed from my own as possible…” Her second novel, When I Hit You: Or, The Portrait of the Writer As A Young Wife (Atlantic, 2017), a complex tale of abuse exploring intellectual and physical cruelty, was a work of autofic tion lifting the veil on the silence surrounding domestic violence and marital rape in India. Meena Kandasamy combines her love for the written word with the struggle for social justice through poetry, translation, fiction and essays.
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