Daisy Hasan
Daisy Hasan (Assamese: ডেইজী হাচান) is an Indian-English author from Shillong, Meghalaya and is the author of The To-Let House. It was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008.[1]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Daisy Hasan teaches at the University of Cardiff, Wales. She is a writer and filmmaker, interested in theatre and video films. She writes regularly for national newspapers, acts in street theatre and is currently teaching a course on Bollywood films.[2] She holds a PhD from Swansea University, UK. She is currently engaged in a study of South Asian women's art in conflict situations at the University of Leeds, UK and is working on her second novel to be set in Britain.[3]
Her book The To-Let House was shortlisted for The Hindu Best Fiction Award in 2010.[4]
She took part in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six Books where she wrote a piece based upon a book of the King James Bible.[5]
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- Living people
- Women writers from Meghalaya
- English-language Indian writers
- British writers of Indian descent
- People from Shillong
- 21st-century Indian novelists
- 21st-century English women writers
- Women writers of Indian descent
- 21st-century Indian women writers
- Novelists from Meghalaya
- Alumni of Swansea University
- Assamese people
- Academics of Cardiff University
- Indian writer stubs