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100			_aKamala Das (Madmavi Kutty)
245			_aMy story _hEnglish
260			_aUttar Pradesh _bPublished in association with D.C. Books by HarperCollins Publishers, _c2009.
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500			_a First published in Malayalam in 1973, My Story, Kamala Das's sensational autobiography, shocked readers with its total disregard for mindless conventions and its fearless articulation of a subject still considered taboo. Depicting the author's intensely personal experiences in her passage to womanhood and shedding light on the hypocrisies that informed traditional society, this memoir was far ahead of its time and is now acknowledged as a bona fide masterpiece. Born in 1934 in Kerala, Kamala Das was the author of several novels, collections of poetry and short stories in English as well as Malayalam in which she wrote as Madhavikutty. Nominated in 1984 for the Nobel Prize for literature and winner of several literary prizes in India, she drew admirers and critics in equal measure, especially when it came to the way in which she chose to live her life, with a fearless disregard for mindless convention and sheer courage of conviction. When she died in May 2009, she left behind a body of writing that will continue to inspire and move generations of readers in the future.
650			_a Kamalā Sur̲ayya, -- 1934-2009. Das, Kamala, -- (1934- ...) -- Biographies. Authors, Malayalam -- 20th century -- Biography. View all subjects
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