ABHA DAWESAR
Abha Dawesar is the author of four critically acclaimed novels: Family Values (2009), That Summer in Paris (2006), Babyji (2005) and Miniplanner (2000). Babyji was short-listed in France for Le Prix Médicis Roman Étranger and for Le Prix Bel Ami in 2006-2007. Family Values was short-listed for the Prix Médicis Etranger, the Prix Femina, and the Prix RFI témoin du monde. Abha Dawesar is the recipient of numerous honours including the American Library Association’s Stonewall Award for 2006 as well as a Lambda Literary Award for 2005. Abha Dawesar is also a self-taught visual artist and video-maker. She has had exhibitions in New York, Japan, Hungary, Slovakia and Mexico. Her experimental short films on youtube include A Marcel Duchamp moment and two brief reportages Raju-Biscuit Maker and Urban Ecosystem-The Life of a Delhi Monkey. She is currently working on a longer film about the proximity of living with monkeys, an unintended offshoot of deforestation in the environs of Delhi.