Born in 1984 in Chennai, Kandasamy is a feminist and anti-caste activist who has been vocal about the arrest of fellow writers like Varavara Rao and former Delhi University professor G.N Saibaba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indian author and poet Meena Kandasamy has been announced as this year\u2019s recipient of the Hermann Kesten Prize by the PEN Centre in Germany\u2019s Darmstadt. The Hermann Kesten Prize honours personalities who, in the spirit of the charter of the PEN association, stand up for the rights of persecuted authors and journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cornelia Zetzsche, Vice President of the German PEN Center, described Kandasamy as \u201ca fearless fighter for democracy and human rights, for the free word and against the oppression of landless, minorities and Dalit in India; not a \u2018Ms. Pleasant\u2019, rather a \u2018Ms. Militancy\u2019,\u201d referring to Kandasamy\u2019s 2011 book of poems titled\u00a0Ms Militancy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Born in 1984 in\u00a0Chennai<\/a>, Kandasamy is a feminist and anti-caste activist whose work revolves around the issue of gender, caste, sexuality, patriarchy, and oppression by the Brahmanical system. Her novels have been shortlisted for the Women\u2019s Prize for Fiction, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Jhalak Prize and the Hindu Lit Prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kandasamy has been a vocal critic of the arrest of fellow writers like\u00a0Varavara Rao<\/a>\u00a0and former\u00a0Delhi<\/a>\u00a0University professor G N Saibaba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Born in 1984 in Chennai, Kandasamy is a feminist and anti-caste activist who has been vocal about the arrest of fellow writers like Varavara Rao and former Delhi University professor G.N Saibaba. Indian author and poet Meena Kandasamy has been announced as this year\u2019s recipient of the Hermann Kesten Prize by the PEN Centre in … Continue reading Author-poet Meena Kandasamy wins the German PEN award<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,19,20,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazing-feats","category-arts-culture-entertainment","category-records-all-other-excl-asia-india","category-records-india-national","category-women-girls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16550"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16555,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16550\/revisions\/16555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}