K. R.
Meera

Fiction that looks directly at power, memory and the untamed interior lives of women.

Selected works

Novels

Three unforgettable worlds by K. R. Meera. Choose a cover to step inside.

A novel

Hangwoman

Author: K. R. Meera
Language: English translation

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Hangwoman

In a family of executioners, twenty-two-year-old Chetna Grddha Mullick is appointed the first woman executioner in India. A fierce, darkly comic novel of gender, spectacle and inherited violence.

Book 01 · Novel

Qabar

A hypnotic encounter between a judge and a man claiming ancestral land begins to loosen the boundaries between law, history, desire and the uncanny.

Book 02 · Novel

Assassin

After a near-fatal attack, Satyapriya begins a search for her assailant that opens onto family secrets, political violence and the unfinished histories of a nation.

Book 03 · Novella

The Poison of Love

A woman abandons the life that betrayed her, yet finds desire and devotion following her into renunciation. A spare, unsettling meditation on love's afterlife.

The author

K. R.
Meera

K. R. Meera is an acclaimed Malayalam novelist, short-story writer, essayist and former journalist. Her bold, psychologically intricate fiction has received India's leading literary honours and reached readers across languages through translation.

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Awards

Selected recognition

2015Sahitya Akademi Award↗

2014Vayalar Award↗

2013Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award↗

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K. R.Meera

Novels

K. R.Meera

Awards

K. R.
Meera

K. R.
Meera