Manjula Padmanabhan

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Manjula Padmanabhan (born 1953) is an Indian playwright, journalist, comic strip artist, and children's book author.

Career and works[edit]

She won the Greek Onassis Award for her play Harvest. An award-winning film Deham was made by Govind Nihalani based on the play.

She has written one more powerful play, Lights Out! (1984), Hidden Fires is a series of monologues. The Artist's Model (1995) and Sextet are her other works.(1996).[1]

She has also authored a collection of short stories, called Kleptomania. Her most recent book, published in 2008, is Escape.[1]

Apart from writing newspaper columns she created comic strips. She created Suki, an Indian comic character, which was serialized as a strip in The Sunday Observer.[2] Before 1997 (the year her play Harvest was staged) she was better known as cartoonist and had a daily cartoon strip in The Pioneer newspaper.

As playwright[edit]

  • 1984 - "Lights Out"
  • 2003. Harvest. London: Aurora Metro Books

As author and illustrator[edit]

  • 2013. Three Virgins and Other Stories New Delhi, India: Zubaan Books.
  • 2015. Island of Lost Girls. Hachette.
  • 2011. I am different! Can you find me? Watertown, Mass: Charlesbridge Pub.
  • 2008. Escape. Hachette.
  • 2005. Unprincess! New Delhi: Puffin Books.
  • 1986. A Visit to the City Market New Delhi: National Book Trust
  • 2003. Mouse Attack


As Illustrator[edit]

  • Baig, Tara Ali, and Manjula Padmanabhan. 1979. Indrani and the enchanted jungle. New Delhi: Thomson Press (India) Ltd.
  • Maithily Jagannathan and Manjula Padmanabhan. 1984. Droopy dragon. New Delhi: Thomson Press.

Comic Strips[edit]

  • 2005. Double talk. New Delhi: Penguin Books.

Autobiography[edit]

  • 2002. Getting There

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matthan, Ayesha (3 January 2009). "Is it the great escape?". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
  2. Moddie, Mandira (28 August 2005). "Antics of Suki". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2009.

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