Manju Kapur

Manju Kapur (born Amritsar, India) is an Indian novelist. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia.

She teaches English at Delhi University under the name Manjul Kapur Dalmia.

She studied and received an M.A. in 1972 from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, and an M. Phil from Delhi University.

She is married to Gun Nidhi Dalmia; they have three children and three grandchildren, and live in New Delhi.

Awards and honors

1999: Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia, Difficult Daughters

Difficult Daughters, Penguin India, 1998; Faber and Faber, 1998, ISBN 978-0-571-19289-2

A Married Woman, India Ink, 2003; Faber and Faber, 2003, ISBN 978-0-571-21568-3

Home, Random House India, 2006, ISBN 978-81-8400-000-9; Faber and Faber, 2006, ISBN 978-0-571-22841-6

The Immigrant, Random House, India, 2008, ISBN 978-81-8400-048-1; Faber And Faber, 2009, ISBN 978-0-571-24407-2

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