Daisy Hasan
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Daisy Hasan ({{langx|as|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.{{cite web|author=Divya Kumar |url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/article97588.ece |title=The Homecoming |publisher=Beta.thehindu.com |date=2010-10-10 |accessdate=2012-06-18}}
Biography
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.{{cite web |url=http://www.tarabooks.com/about/authors/ |title=Authors page |publisher=Tarabooks |date= |accessdate=2012-06-18 |archive-date=20 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920090151/http://www.tarabooks.com/about/authors/ |url-status=dead }}
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.{{cite web|url=http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/daisy-hasan/ |title=Jaipur Literature Festival |publisher=Jaipur Literature Festival |accessdate=2012-06-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308232732/http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/daisy-hasan/ |archivedate=8 March 2012 |df=dmy }}
Her book The To-Let House is also shortlisted for The Hindu Best Fiction Award in 2010{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/books/article806769.ece |title=The Hindu Best Fiction Award 2010 Shortlist |publisher=Thehindu.com |date=2010-10-01 |accessdate=2012-06-18}}
She also 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{{cite web|url=http://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/biography/writers/ |title=Bush Theatre |accessdate=19 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110704090950/http://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/biography/writers/ |archivedate=4 July 2011 }}
And she contributed many books to ''English language "
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Category:Women writers from Meghalaya
Category:English-language writers from India
Category:British writers of Indian descent
Category:21st-century Indian novelists
Category:21st-century English women writers
Category:Women writers of Indian descent
Category:21st-century Indian women writers
Category:Novelists from Meghalaya
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Category:Alumni of Swansea University
Category:Academics of Cardiff University
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