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Anita Nair
Anita Nair was born in Shoranur, Kerala in India. When she was about a month old, she was taken to Chennai, then known as Madras. She grew up in an ordnance factory housing colony in a suburb called Avadi. When she was seventeen, her mother decided to return to Kerala and manage her family property. Anita Nair moved with her to an obscure little college in Kerala - NSS Ottapalam where she did her B.A. in English Language and Literature.
She began with a poem 'Happenings in the London
Underground' being included in an anthology brought out by the Poetry
Society of India in 1992. Stories and middles started appearing in print.
Her fiction was broadcast on the radio on numerous occasions. And she began
to contribute regularly to the Times of India.
In 1996, a short story collection titled '' was published in June 1997. Even
though Satyr of the Subway was published by a small firm, the book caught
the eye of critics and readers alike. One of the reasons for its success was
the cover which was designed by , a design firm. Around that
time, Anita Nair began to work with , India's first ever literary agency.
In 1998, she completed work on and in the span of a week signed up with
Laura Susijn of , a literary agency based in London.
Then came The Better Man which was accepted almost simultaneously by Penguin
India and Picador USA. It was a first book by an Indian author living in
India to be published by Picador and the book hit the stands in 2000. Today
The Better Man has publishers in France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania and
Kerala, India. Ladies Coupe was published in May 2001 in India again by
Penguin and already has publishers in the UK, Spain, Netherlands, Germany
and Italy. Part-time parent, part-time advertising writer
and full-time epicure, she lives in Bangalore, India with her husband who
works in advertising as well and their son.
Works
Novels:
- Mistress
Humour:
- Sex and the art of second hand car buying
- The thin woman will inherit the earth but she won't get the man
- By great grandma's four poster bed, I sat down and wept…
- The story of oh, not tonight darling, I'm much too full…
- Alphabet soup for the libido
- Foot in the mouth
- On making some music
- Writing about Sex
- We are Like That Only
Essays & Articles:
Ganapathy-Dore, Geetha. "Novels in Parts: Susan Visvanathan's something Barely Remembered and Anita Nair's Ladies Coupe." The Atlantic Literary Review, 2003, 4:3, 129-142.
Nityanandam, Indira. "Karuna Rasa in Anita Nair’s The Better Man" in Indo English Fiction : The Last Decade/Indira Nityanandam and Reena Kothari. New Delhi, Creative Books, 2002.