Himanjali Sankar, Talking of Muskaan

Ritwika Roy (Jadavpur University)

Ed. by Dainy Bernstein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.1.03: Indian Writing and Culture: Post-colonial, 1947-present.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège)

Dates

First circulation or publication Jan 2014

Places

India (Country of Origin; Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Children's Literature
- Young Adult

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Himanjali Sankar’s

Talking of Muskaan

(2014), shortlisted for the 2016 Crossword Book Award, is one of the first queer young adult novels in India. It is also the first YA novel by Sankar, who previously wrote

The Magical Adventures of Skinny Scribbles

(2012),

The Stupendous Timetelling Superdog

(2013), and

Missing:A Magnificent Superdog

(2014) for young readers. Sankar is currently Editorial Director at Simon & Schuster India, having previously worked at Bloomsbury India and Scholastic India. She wrote this novel after discussions with her publisher, Duckbill, about the lack of representation of homosexuality in Indian YA fiction when the Supreme Court of India’s re-criminalisation of homosexuality in Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code in 2013 was in the news (Banerjee 169).

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Citation: Roy, Ritwika. "Talking of Muskaan". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 February 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=41198, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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