WRITER

Varsha Adalja

1940 - Today

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Varsha Mahendra Adalja (born 10 April 1940) is an Indian Gujarati language feminist novelist, playwright and negotiator, who won the 1995 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for her novel Ansar. She is also a dramatist, writing for stage plays, screenplays, and radio. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Varsha Adalja is the 5,587th most popular writer (up from 6,163rd in 2019), the 766th most popular biography from India (up from 843rd in 2019) and the 99th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Varsha Adalja ranks 5,587 out of 7,302Before her are Guy Gavriel Kay, Ndre Mjeda, Natália Correia, Uladzimir Nyaklyayew, Axel Merckx, and Patricia Wrightson. After her are Semir Osmanagić, Ion Agârbiceanu, Eugène Dabit, Robert Herrick, Martin Cruz Smith, and Thomas Linacre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Varsha Adalja ranks 470Before her are Luke Kelly, Marco Maciel, Carol Heiss, Ernő Solymosi, Pilar Miró, and Alfonso Guerra. After her are Joe Torre, Richard Corben, Roy Thomas, Pauline Collins, Sharad Pawar, and David Jason.

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In India

Among people born in India, Varsha Adalja ranks 766 out of 1,861Before her are Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914), Raj Reddy (1937), Nana Patekar (1951), Swarnakumari Devi (1855), Venkatesh (1960), and Parveen Babi (1949). After her are Arthur E. Kennelly (1861), Farida Jalal (1949), Shuja-ud-Daula (1732), Sharad Pawar (1940), Ekta Kapoor (1975), and S. Shankar (1963).

Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Varsha Adalja ranks 99Before her are Suryakant Tripathi (1899), Jayakanthan (1934), Bano Qudsia (1928), K. Shivaram Karanth (1902), Altaf Hussain Hali (1837), and Swarnakumari Devi (1855). After her are Muthuswami Dikshitar (1775), Nirmal Verma (1929), Anita Desai (1937), Cornelia Sorabji (1866), Roshanara Begum (1617), and Ismat Chughtai (1915).