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MARGARET MASCARENHAS is a novelist, independent curator, consulting
editor, and columnist. She is the author of the diasporic novel, Skin, published by Penguin India (2001); in
French translation by Mercure de France (2002); in Portuguese translation by Editora Replicacao (2006). Now republished by
Broadway Books in association with Goa 1556.
An American citizen of Goan origin who grew up in Venezuela, she
currently lives in Goa and is the founding Director of the Goa Centre for the Arts. Her new novel, The Disappearance
of Irene Dos Santos, has been published by Grand Central (Hachette). She has completed a collection of poetry, Triage--casualties
of love and sexual politics, which will be published by Harper Collins in 2013, and is working on her third novel, Just
Another Car Bomb (working title) as well as on collections of her columns and short stories. Her non-fiction
has been published in Coloquio Letras, the literary magazine of the Gulbenkian Foundation. She is a regular contributor to
Urban Voice, published by Frog Books.
Her agent is Ellen
Levine (Trident Media Group, 41 Madison Avenue, 36th Floor NY, NY 10010)
The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos; a Barnes and Noble Discover pick
Bookreview.com
Free shipping to India:
American Booksellers Association/Review by Linda Bubon, page 11
Publishers Weekly/ Review
New Statesman review
Genderacrossborders
ANAW Indie Pick
The Front Table; the web magazine of Seminary Co-op Bookstores. Review by Joan Hives
Bookpage
Powerful Latinas--April 2010 recommendations. By Marcela Landres
Want to get in touch? You can send her
e-mail at:
m_masc2004 (at) yahoo.com
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