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'''Shashi Deshpande''' (born 1938) is an Indian [[novelist]]. She is a recipient of the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] and the [[Padma Shri]] Award in 1990 and 2009 respectively.

She was born on 19 august 1938 in [[Dharwad]], [[Karnataka]], the second daughter of the Kannada dramatist and writer [[Adya Rangacharya]] and Sharada Adya.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/Sharada-Adya-Rangacharya-dead/articleshow/1708448074.cms|title=Sharada Adya Rangacharya dead|publisher=Times of India|access-date=7 January 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Shashi Deshpande: A Critical Spectrum|page=191|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P8RKahdswO4C|author=T. M. J. Indra Mohan|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist.|year=2004|isbn=978-8126903092}}</ref> She was educated in [[Bombay]] (now Mumbai) and [[Bangalore]]. Deshpande has degrees in [[Economics]] and [[Law]]. In Mumbai, she studied [[journalism]] at the Vidya Bhavan and worked for a couple offew months as a journalist for the magazine 'Onlooker'.<ref>[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20050224111101/http://sawnet.org/books/authors.php?Deshpande+Shashi SAWNET: Bookshelf: Shashi Deshpande<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

She published her first collection of short stories in 1978, and her first novel, 'The Dark Holds No Terror', in 1980. She won the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] for the novel ''That Long Silence'' in 1990 and the [[Padma Shri]] award in 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=46983|title = Untitled Page}}</ref> Her novel ''Shadow Play'' was shortlisted for [[The Hindu Literary Prize]] in 2014.<ref>{{cite webnews |url=http://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/shortlist-of-the-six-novelists-of-the-hindu-prize-2014/article6471245.ece |title=Here's the shortlist |work=The Hindu |date=5 October 2014 |access-date=24 December 2014}}</ref>

Deshpande has written four [[children’s books]], a number of short stories, and ninethirteen [[novels]], besides several perceptive [[essays]], availableand inan aessay volumecollection entitled ''Writing from the Margin and Other Essays''.

On 9 OctoberDecember, 2015, she resigned from her position onin the [[Sahitya Akademi]]'s general council and returned her Sahitya Akademi award. In doing so, she joined a broader protest by other writers against the Akademi's perceived inaction and silence on the murder of [[M. M. Kalburgi]].<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=The Hindu | date=9 October 2015 | url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/noted-writer-sashi-despande-stepped-down-from-the-sahitya-akademi-council/article7742990.ece?ref=relatedNews | title=After Sashi Deshpande steps down, Akademi explains its silence | first=Anuradha | last=Raman | access-date=20 December 2018 }}</ref>

On 6 December, 2018, during her inaugural address of the ninth edition of the [[Goa Arts and Literature Festival]] (GALF), Deshpande urged Indians to think about the consequences of wanting a Hindu nation, and reminded those present of the violence and carnage that had been caused by the India-Pakistan partition.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://englishnews.thegoan.net/story.php?id=47373|title=Hope idea of Hindutva is rejected in upcoming polls: Author who returned Sahitya Award|date=7 Dec 2018|work=The Goan Everyday|access-date=10 Dec 2018}}</ref>

* ''[[That Long Silence]]'', Penguin (paperback 1989), {{ISBN|0-14-012723-2}}

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070313095703/http://www.hindu.com/yw/2006/10/13/stories/2006101300430800.htm Review of 3 children's novels, The Hindu, 13 Oct 2006]