Women Telling Women’s Stories: 5 Authors You Should Read Today
Women telling women’s stories. This is not only essential but also a significant parameter with which we can understand our history. After all, what is history is other than a pile of facts. Facts that often forget to take into account the marginalised sections of society. So, here’s a list of wonderful women writers who write about all those who haven’t got the opportunity to talk about their side of the story.
Virginia Woolf — Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. She had famously said — “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction” in her 1929 essay A Room of One’s Own. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928).
Sudha Murthy — Sudha Murty is an Indian engineering teacher, author and a social worker.is a prolific writer in English and Kannada. Her books, which include eight bestselling works for children, have been translated into all major Indian languages. Some of her noteworthy works include ‘Here, There, Everywhere’, ‘Wise And Otherwise’, ‘The Mother I Never Knew’, ‘Gently Falls The Bakula’ etc.
Mahashweta Devi- Mahasweta Devi was an Indian writer in Bengali and an activist. Her notable literary works include Hajar Churashir Maa, Rudali, and Aranyer Adhikar. She was a self-proclaimed leftist who worked for the rights and empowerment of the tribal people of West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh states of India.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie- A Nigerian by birth, she works on various projects ranging from novels to short stories to nonfiction. Adichie is the author of Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, The Thing Around Your Neck, Americanah, and We Should All Be Feminists. Arguably the most popular author from Nigeria after Chinua Achebe, Adichie has won Women’s Prize for Fiction, one of the most prestigious literature awards in the UK, for her 2007 book ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’.
Marjane Satrapi- Iranian artist, director, and writer whose graphic novels explore the gaps and the junctures between East and West. Her best-known works include the comic book Persepolis and its film adaptation, the graphic novel Chicken with Plums, and the Marie Curie biopic, Radioactive.
