Shashi Deshpande

Shashi Deshpande (born 1938) is an Indian novelist. She is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award. She was born in Dharwad, Karnataka, the second daughter of dramatist and writer Adya Rangacharya and Sharada Adya. She was educated in Bombay (now Mumbai) and Bangalore. Deshpande has degrees in Economics and Law. In Mumbai, she studied journalism and worked for a couple of months as a journalist for the magazine 'Onlooker