Abha Dawesar (born 1 January 1974 ) is an Indian-born novelist writing in English. Her novels include Babyji, Family Values, That Summer in Paris, and Miniplanner. Her 2005 novel Babyji won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the Stonewall Book Award.

Biography

Abha Dawesar was born in New Delhi. She moved to the United States to attend Harvard University, where she graduated in 1995. Before publishing her award-winning second novel, Babyji (2005), Dawesar was working at a global financial services firm in Manhattan. She quit her job to devote her time to writing. Dawesar has been exhibiting photography, visual, and video art since she was a student at Harvard. Her work has been exhibited at various galleries and museums in the United States and abroad. In 2010, she wrote part of the screenplay for the film Love and the Cities, directed by Rodrigo Bernardo. Since 2013, Dawesar has been speaking on issues around digital technology and its effects on social behavior and experience.

Awards

Novels

Short stories

Personal life

She lives in New York City.