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COMPUTE R

WOMENWRITERS

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Louise Albeita ChewiwiLouise Abeita Chewiwi is a Native American writer

and educator, who is an enrolled member of Isleta Pueblo . Louise Abeita was born, in 1926, and raised at Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico, United States . Her father, Diego Abeita, was active in tribal government. Her mother, Lottie Gunn Abeita, was from Laguna Pueblo. When Abeita was a young girl, her father noticed that she had a natural talent for poetry. In order to showcase his daughters

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work, he brought together Native artists from Navajo, Apache and Pueblo communities to create and print a book based around her poetry. This group would form the National Gallery of the American Indian (NGAI), and they would publish Abeita's illustrated book. She was 13 years old. The book, I am a Pueblo Indian Girl, has been described as the "first truly Indian book," by historians Gretchen Bataille and Laurie Lisa. When Abeita was a young girl, her father noticed that she had a natural talent for poetry. In order to showcase his daughters work, he brought together Native artists from Navajo`, Apache and Pueblo communities to create and print a book based around her poetry.

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This group would form the National Gallery of the American Indian (NGAI), and they would publish Abeita's illustrated book . She was 13 years old. The book, I am a Pueblo Indian Girl, has been described as the "first truly Indian book," by historians Gretchen Bataille and Laurie Lisa.I Am a Pueblo Indian Girl depicts the life of Abeita through prose and poetry. Themes throughout the book touch on Pueblo traditions, with illustrations by artists from NGAI complimenting Abeita's writing. This book is considered the first effort in the Pueblo community to document artistry and tradition to the English-speaking, non-Native community.

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She had a long career teaching within the BIA school system and continued be active in Indian education long after her retirement.

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Preeti ShenoyDuring her school years Preeti studied in Kendriya

Vidyalayas all over India, due to her father's constant job transfers, and this contact with different cultures and languages may have had an influence in her later interest for Sociology. She started developing her writing skills since an early age, but only considered becoming a professional writer after she created herself a blog in October 2006. The number of page hits on her blog increased day by day, and readers throughout the world suggested her that she should consider publishing her texts. In 2007 she wrote a couple of art icles for

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Metro Scan, a local magazine, and in the beginning of 2008 she was invited to start contributing regularly to the newspaper Times of India. On this same year she wrote articles for Reader's Digest "Joy", and had her articles republished in various other Indian newspapers and magazines. Encouraged by the favorable reception of her first publications, she decided it was time to dedicate to a larger project, and began writing her first book, a collection of narratives based on real life incidents, some of which had been previously posted on her blog in a shorter form. It was launched in October 2008. Her second book, a fictional novel about an Indian girl named Ankita Sharma, was published in January 2011. Her plans are to become a full time writer.

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Preeti is a poet, too —her poetry was published in the Sulekha Book Series— and a self taught artist who paints in water colors and oils but also works in mixed media.

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ANITA DESAIAnita Mazumdar Desai (born 24 June 1937) is an

[Indian] novelist and Emeritus John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times, was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, in 1978 for her novel, Fire on the Mountain, by the Sahitya Akademi , India's National Academy of Letters. She was a student at Queen Mary's Higher Secondary School in Delhi and received her B.A. in English literature in 1957 from the Miranda House of the University of Delhi.

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The following year she married Ashvin Desai, the director of a computer software company and author of the book: Between Eternities: Ideas on Life and The Cosmos. They have four children, including Booker Prize-winning novelist Kiran Desai. Her children were taken to Thul (near Alibagh) for weekends, where Desai set her novel The Village by the Sea. Desai published her first novel, Cry The Peacock, in 1963. She considers Clear Light Of Day (1980) her most autobiographical work as it is set during her coming of age and also in the same neighbourhood in which she grew up. In 1984 she published In Custody - about an Urdu poet in his declining days - which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

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In 1993 she became a creative writing teacher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her novel, The Zigzag Way (2004), is set in 20th-century Mexico and her latest novel The Artist of Disappearance came in 2011. In 1993 Merchant Ivory Productions released In Custody, directed by Ismail Merchant, with a screenplay by Shahrukh Husain. It won the 1994 President of India Gold Medal for Best Picture and stars Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi and Om Puri.

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GITA PIRAMALGita Piramal (also referred as 'Dr. Gita Piramal‘ )

born in 1954 is a renowned media personality, freelance writer, business historian, managing editor of The Smart Manager magazine, Director of BP Ergo and former director of VIP Industries Limited. She was married into Mumbai-based Piramal business family and featured in 25 Most Powerful Women in Indian Business in 2004. She has holded the MA in History and the PhD in Business History from Bombay University in 1989.

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She has penned down several books:

• Business Maharajas • Business Legends (1999) • Managing Radical Change (co-authored with

Sumantra Ghoshal) (Delhi Management Association prize for the best management book)

• World Class in India (co-authored with Sumantra Ghoshal) (Delhi Management Association prize for the best management book)

• Business Mantras • Sumantra Ghoshal on Management: A Force for

Good (co-authored with Julian Birkinshaw)

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• Smart Leadership (2005) • The Smart Manager, managing editor since Feb

2002.• India's Industrialists, Vol. 1 (co-authored with

Margaret Herdeck) Awards and recognition• Gita had received 'Business Today Award' for being

one of India's 25 most powerful women in 2004.• She also received the Scholar of the Year 2004

award from Ness Wadia College, Pune, India.• Her two books have been adjudged as best

management book by Delhi Management Association.

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Gita spent most of her childhood in London. She married Dilip Piramal of VIP Industries Limited around 1979. They divorced in 2005. Dilip and Gita had two daughters, Radhika and Aparna. Radhika studied in England and completed an MBA from Harvard Business School. Aparna married Amit Raje in June-2005. After the divorce, Dilip married to Shalini Agarwal in June-2005.

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