Anita Nair Biography and latest books by Anita Nair

Anita Nair is a popular Indian-English writer. She was born at Mundakottakurissi, near Shornur in Kerala. A bestselling author of fiction and poetry, her novels, The Better Man and Ladies Coupe have received appreciation and have been translated into 21 languages. She was educated in Chennai before returning to Kerala, where she gained a BA in English Literature. She was working as the creative director of an advertising agency in Bangalore when she wrote her first book, a collection of short stories called Satyr of the Subway. The book won her a fellowship from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Her second book was published by Penguin India, and was the first book by an Indian author to be published by Picador USA.
 

Among Nair\'s early commercial works were pieces she penned in the late 90\'s for The Bangalore Monthly magazine, published by Explocity in a column titled The Economical Epicurean.
 

Thereafter followed her novel The Better Man (2000) which also has been published in Europe and USA. In 2002 appeared the collection of poems Malabar Mind, and in 2003 Where the Rain is Born - Writings about Kerala which she has edited.Anita Nair´s second novel Ladies Coupé from 2001, has turned out to be a bigger success among critics and readers alike.
 

She currently lives in Bangalore with her husband and son.

Popular works

Lessons In Forgetting (2010)
A beautifully told story of redemption, forgiveness and second chances.Through a series of coincidences, Meera and JAK find their lives turning and twisting together, with the unpredictability and sheer inevitability of a cyclone. And as the days pass, fresh beginnings appear where there seemed to be only endings.Crafted to echo the stages of a cyclone, Lessons in Forgetting is a heartwarming story of redemption, forgiveness and second chances.

Mistress (2005)
When travel writer Christopher Stewart arrives at a riverside resort in Kerala to meet Koman, Radha\'s uncle and a famous kathakali dancer, he enters a world of masks and hidden emotions. From their first meeting, both Radha and her uncle are drawn to the enigmatic young man. The triangle quickly excludes Shyam, Radha\'s husband, who can only watch helplessly as Radha embraces Chris passionately, something that he has never been able to draw from her. Also playing the role of observer-participant is Koman; his life story, as it unfolds, captures all the nuances and contradictions of the relationships being made—and unmade—in front of his eyes.

Ladies Coupé (2001)
Meet Akhilandeshwari, Akhila for short: forty-five and single, an income-tax clerk, and a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life. She has always been this daughter, sister, aunt and the provider.Until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to Kanyakumari, gloriously alone for the first time in her life and determined to break free of all that her conservative Tamil brahmin life. In the intimate atmosphere of the ladies coupé which she happens to share with five other women

The Better Man (2000)
In Anita Nair\'s warm and imaginative first novel, middle-aged bachelor Mukundan returns to his native place and is haunted by the past. Determined to conquer old ghosts, Mukundan decides to restore his childhood home and hires an outcast painter, to supervise the renovations. A practitioner of a unique style of healing, Bhasi sets about mending his troubled friend, but the durability of Mukundan\'s transformation into a better man is soon called in to question. Here Nair’s knowledge of South Indian culture and an eye for telling detail won her accolades 

 Talking Cranes - An interview with Anita Nair

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