Namjoshi, Suniti (1941–)
Namjoshi, Suniti (1941–)
Indian poet, novelist and feminist. Born 1941 in Mumbai, India; dau. of Captain Manohar Vinayak Namjoshi (test pilot killed in a crash, 1953) and Sarojini (née Naik Nimbalkar) Namjoshi; studied at universities of Poona and Missouri; McGill University, Canada, PhD; became a Canadian citizen.
Held teaching posts in India and at Toronto University in Canada and Exeter University in England; work draws on oral story-telling tradition and often gives fairytales a feminist turn; poetry collections include The Jackass and the Lady (1980), The Authentic Life (1983), Flesh and Paper (1986), and Because of India (1989); prose works include Feminist Fables (1981), The Conversations of Cow (1985), Aditi and the One-Eyed Monkey (1986), The Blue Donkey Fables (1989), The Mothers of Maya Diip (1989), and Saint Suniti and the Dragon (1993); with mother, translated poems of Marathi poet Govindagraj into English (1968).