Books written by Nayantara sahgal

Nayantara Sahgal Nayantara Sahgal has written nine novels and eight works of non-fiction. She is the recipient of the Sinclair Prize for Fiction, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Commonwealth Writers? Prize. A member of the Sahitya Akademi?s Advisory Board for English till she resigned during the Emergency, Sahgal served on the jury of the Commonwealth Writers? Prize in 1990 and 1991. She has held fellowships in the United States at the Bunting Institute, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the National Humanities Center. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was awarded an honorary doctorate in literature by the University of Leeds in 1997. She is associated with the founding of the People?s Union for Civil Liberties and served as its vice-president during the 1980s.