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V. V. Ganeshananthan
Writer

V. V. Ganeshananthan

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Writing Brotherless Night and Love Marriage.

Love Marriage · Brotherless Night

Born
1980
Birthplace
Unknown

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V. V. Ganeshananthan

V. V. Ganeshananthan is an American novelist and journalist whose fiction follows Sri Lankan families through conflict, migration and political change.

Early life

Education

Graduated from Harvard in 2002, earned an MFA at Iowa in 2005 and completed a journalism master’s at Columbia in 2007.

Career

  1. 2008

    First novel

    Published Love Marriage, developed from her Harvard thesis.

  2. 2015

    Minnesota

    Began teaching at the University of Minnesota.

  3. 2024

    Fiction prizes

    Brotherless Night won the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Carol Shields Prize.

Selected work

Love Marriage

A novel about a Sri Lankan family across Sri Lanka and North America.

Brotherless Night

A young woman’s medical ambitions unfold amid Sri Lanka’s civil war.

Beyond work

Literary organisations

Has served in leadership and board roles with the South Asian Journalists Association and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

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