Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Manju Kapur
Born: 1948 (age 77)
Bio: Manju Kapur is an Indian novelist. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia.
Known for:
- Difficult daughters (1998)
- Custody (2011)
- The Immigrant (2008)
- A Married Woman (2002)
- Brothers: A Novel (2016)