Bama (writer)

Bama
Born
Faustina Mary Fatima Rani

(1958-03-14) March 14, 1958 (age 66)
Pudhupatti, Chennai, India
NationalityIndian.
Occupation(s)writer, teacher.

Bama (born 14 March 1958), also known as Bama Faustina Soosairaj, is a Tamil Dalit feminist, teacher and novelist. Her autobiographical novel Karukku (1992) chronicles the joys and sorrows experienced by Dalit Christian women in Tamil Nadu.[1] She subsequently wrote two more novels, Sangati (1994) and Vanmam (2002) along with three collections of short stories: Kusumbukkaran (1996) and Oru Tattvum Erumaiyum (2003), 'Kandattam'(2009).[2] In addition to this, she has written twenty short stories.

  1. ^ Dutt, Nirupama. "Caste in her own image". The Tribune.
  2. ^ "Biography, Tamil Studies conference". Tamil Studies Conference. Archived from the original on 28 January 2010. Retrieved 7 January 2012.