Indian Women Novelists

 Indian Women Novelists:

Like the women poets of the post-Independence period, the women novelists formed a sizable and significant school. Even more than men, women writers gifted with extraordinary talents, have made Indo-English literature a matter of pride to us and a source of admiration to foreigners. In the field of poetry, Toru Dutt, the inheritor of unfulfilled renown has made an indelible mark in the minds of Indians as well as of the foreigner with her poetry of supreme excellence and poetic cadence, and sweet expression. Sarojini Naidu, the nightingale of India, whose poetry enchants the young and old alike, casts a spell over the readers and raises their spirits with her musical masterpieces. But while their genius flourished in the field of poetry, fiction writing has reached the pinnacle of its glory with the writings of established women. Writers of fiction are Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal, Anita Desai, Shanta Rama Rao. Atiah Hussain, Arundhati Roy, Suniti Namjoshi, Kiran Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri and Anita Nair.