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MARGARET MASCARENHAS is a novelist, independent curator, consulting editor, and op ed 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. She is also the author of the novel, The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos (Grand Central, Hachette 2010) and of the pspoken work poetry/flash and sketch collection Triage--casualties of love and sex  (Harper Collins 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.

An American citizen of Goan origin who grew up in Venezuela, she currently lives in Goa and is the founding Director the Blue Shores Prison Art Project. 
 
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

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The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos Critic Rating by idreambooks.com

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

WORKSHOPS BY MARGARET

  • AUTHENTIC VOICE
  • ENGLISH SKILLS PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOP
  • FROM JOURNAL TO ESSAY
  • POINT OF VIEW IN FICTION

Want to get in touch? You can send her e-mail at:
m_masc2004 (at) yahoo.com

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REVIEWS OF SKIN

Review by Florence Noiville in Le Monde (in French)

Indian Review of Books

sunday midday review

Review by Annie Mathews Vohra at Tehelka.com

Review by Elle

Review by Radhika Jha in Outlook

Review by Eunice de Sousa at India-Syndicate.com

Penguin Books/Synopsis and reviews

Review by Manohar Shetty in The Hindu (for the amusement of feminists)

World Literature Today 2002 by Peter Nazareth

LINKS

The French edition of Skin, La couleur de la peau (Mercure de France)

The controversial Duck and Cover column (Outlook)

THE OTHER INDIA BOOKSTORE

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Triage, casualties of love and sex

Frog Books, Urban Voice

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Goa Centre for the Arts

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