Suniti Namjoshi grew up in India, worked in Canada and at present lives in the southwest of England with English writer Gillian Hanscombe.
11 Facts About Suniti Namjoshi
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Suniti Namjoshi has written many collections of fables and poetry, several novels, and more than a dozen children's books.
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Suniti Namjoshi's work has been translated into several languages, including Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, Korean, Hindi and Turkish.
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Suniti Namjoshi was killed when his plane crashed in 1953.
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Suniti Namjoshi studied Public Administration and earned her Master's degree from the University of Missouri and earned a PhD from McGill University on Ezra Pound.
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Suniti Namjoshi taught in the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1972 to 1987.
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Suniti Namjoshi began writing full-time in 1987, publishing fiction and poetry works.
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Suniti Namjoshi has been active in the feminist movement and gay liberation movements.
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Suniti Namjoshi was Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Women's Studies at Exeter University in England from 1995 to 2001, and was a member of the Literary Panel of the Arts Council of England from 1993 to 1996.
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In 1996 Suniti Namjoshi published Building Babel, a postmodern novel about building cultures, whose story continues online with a collaborative project that enables readers' contributions.
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In 2023 Suniti Namjoshi was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.