It had four stories which, one could say, featured women protagonists. All of us women writers only belong to that small paragraph because we happen to be women.Įven when women writers are talked about, it’s almost always as “women writers”.Ī very close friend published my second collection of stories, A Kitchen in the Corner of the House. I said, you mention all my contemporaries, then you mention me with many other women writers, including one who wrote in the early 20th century. Then, there’s one paragraph that says women also wrote. In the section on the 1970s, he mentioned all my male contemporaries. In the introduction, he writes the history of Tamil literature decade by decade. For example, a very well-known writer recently edited a big collection of Tamil stories of the last hundred years. But I do feel that in any literary history in any Indian language, only the male writers are cited first. I enjoy doing what I do, and, maybe, some people enjoy reading me. If a list of the best writers in Tamil is ever made, I wonder if I would figure on it. I don’t think I’m accepted fully even now. In an old interview, you spoke about your stories being rejected by magazines. But I told them that all my life I have written stories without worrying about who reads them. The magazine, which generally publishes my work, wondered whether to publish them at all. Just the previous year, I had published a book of the usual short stories, so when these stories came out, people were shocked. The Tamil stories were published in 2013. I started writing these because in most of the stories I had read, the detective was always male.
Have you ever met a woman detective like Sudha Gupta?
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