About Indira Ganesan
Born 1960. Indira Ganesan is an Indian and American writer.
Indira Ganesan (born 1960, in Srirangam) is an American novelist and essayist, best known for her novels The Journey, Inheritance (1998), and As Sweet As Honey (2013). A graduate of Vassar College and the University of Iowa, she was granted a Mary Ingraham Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe College in 1998 as well as a fellowship of the Paden Institute for Writers of Color in 2004. Her essays have featured in the magazines Antaeus, Glamour and Mississippi Review, as well as in Newsday. She was a judge for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in 2014.
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Who is Indira Ganesan?
author of "The Journey"
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Indira Ganesan was born in 1960 in Srirangam.
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Indira Ganesan is a writer.
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Indira Ganesan is Indian and American.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Indira Ganesan. https://biography.guide/indira-ganesan/
MLA: "Indira Ganesan." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/indira-ganesan/.
Chicago: "Indira Ganesan." Biography.guide. https://biography.guide/indira-ganesan/.
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