Sivasankari
Sign in to saveSivasankari (born 14 October 1942) is an Indian author and activist who writes in Tamil. She is one of the four Tamil writers asked by the United States Library of Congress to record their voice as part of the South Asian article on Sivashankari.
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- The Betrayal and Other Stories
- Knit India Through Literature
- Tyagu
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Key facts
- Person.name
- Sivasankari
- Person.birth_place
- Madras, Madras Province,British India(now Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India)
- Person.occupation
- writer
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Dominion of India
- Place of birth
- Chennai
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- International Writing Program
- Languages spoken
- Tamil
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- date of birth
- 1942-10-14
- writing language
- Tamil
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Early life
- Career
- Books
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Sivasankari (born 14 October 1942) is an Indian author and activist who writes in Tamil. She is one of the four Tamil writers asked by the United States Library of Congress to record their voice as part of the South Asian article on Sivashankari.
==Early life== Sivasankari was born in Madras. Including herself, all the children in her family were educated in the Sri Ramakrishna Mission and Sarada Vidyalaya schools. She then studied at SIET College for Women.
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