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    Sarah Joseph was born in 1946 in Kerala, India. She had a career as a school teacher and lecturer before retiring in 2001. Though she began as a poet, she established herself as a fiction writer, publishing several short story collections and novels. Her works focus on marginalized women and their struggles against oppressive social and economic structures. She helped found MANUSHI, an organization that fought for women's rights, and established a feminist theatre. Sarah Joseph has edited women's magazines and works to advocate for women's issues at a theoretical level. She has received several literary awards for her writing and feminist activism.

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    Sarah Joseph was born in 1946 in Kerala, India. She had a career as a school teacher and lecturer before retiring in 2001. Though she began as a poet, she established herself as a fiction writer, publishing several short story collections and novels. Her works focus on marginalized women and their struggles against oppressive social and economic structures. She helped found MANUSHI, an organization that fought for women's rights, and established a feminist theatre. Sarah Joseph has edited women's magazines and works to advocate for women's issues at a theoretical level. She has received several literary awards for her writing and feminist activism.

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    Sarah Joseph was born in 1946 in Kerala, India. She had a career as a school teacher and lecturer before retiring in 2001. Though she began as a poet, she established herself as a fiction writer, publishing several short story collections and novels. Her works focus on marginalized women and their struggles against oppressive social and economic structures. She helped found MANUSHI, an organization that fought for women's rights, and established a feminist theatre. Sarah Joseph has edited women's magazines and works to advocate for women's issues at a theoretical level. She has received several literary awards for her writing and feminist activism.

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    Sarah Joseph

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    Sarah Joseph was born in 1946 in Kerala, India. She had a career as a school teacher and lecturer before retiring in 2001. Though she began as a poet, she established herself as a fiction writer, publishing several short story collections and novels. Her works focus on marginalized women and their struggles against oppressive social and economic structures. She helped found MANUSHI, an organization that fought for women's rights, and established a feminist theatre. Sarah Joseph has edited women's magazines and works to advocate for women's issues at a theoretical level. She has received several literary awards for her writing and feminist activism.

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    Sarah Joseph was born on the 10th of February, 1946 into Christian family at Kuriachira in

    Thrissur in central Kerala. Her father Louis had had an inclination to leftist ideology, whereas
    her mother, Kochumariam, was a conservative woman who took special interest to marry off
    her daughter at the early age of fifteen. After completing a teacher's training course, Sarah
    Joseph started her career as a school teacher. Later she did her Master's degree in Malayalam
    and joined as a lecturer in Kerala Government's collegiate education department. Most part of
    her career was in Government Sanskrit College, Pattambi in Palakkad district from where she
    retired as Professer in 2001. Her husband Joseph is no more. She has two daughters and a son.
    Her address: Geethanjali, Mulakunnathukavu, Thrissur, Kerala.

    Though she started her literary career as a poet, she soon established herself as a fiction writer.
    Her works include collections of short stories, novels and essays.

    Short stories
    Manassile Thee Matram (1973)
    Kadinte Sangeetham (1975, anthology of short stories)
    Paapathara
    Oduvilathe Suryakanthi
    Nilavu Nirayunnu
    Puthuramayanam
    Kaadithu Kandaayo Kaanthaa
    Nanmathinmakalude Wriksham (anthology of short stories)
    Novels
    Aalaahayude Penmakkal
    Maattaathi
    Othappu

    Sarah Joseph writes for the marginalized women struggling to free from the oppressive, social
    and economic structures. Paapathara is a milestone in feminist writing in Malayalam.
    Othappu, which is available in English in Valson Thampu's translation, tells the story of a
    woman's yearning for a true understanding of spirituality and sexuality.

    She is the harbinger of feminist movement in Kerala. In 1986 while working in Government
    Sanskrit College in Pattambi, she founded MANUSHI, an organisation of thinking women and
    fiercely fought against female foeticide, dowry, and for the rights of girls. A feminist theatre
    was established under her guidance and leadership in the same year and a series of plays were
    enacted on the streets of the state's cities like Palakkad, Kannur, Kozhikode etc. Manushi had
    taken up several individual women's issues like dowry-death and rape, which received people's
    support on a grand scale.

    During this period, Sarah Joseph edited thinking women's magazines like MANUSHI and
    MANAVI. Along with Ajitha, another renowned woman activist based in Kozhikode, she
    works for ANWESHI, a woman-oriented human rights organisation and edits its mouthpiece,
    SAMGHATITHA.

    At the theoretical level she has written vigorously for the cause of women, against the
    encroachment of multinational corporates into places like kitchen, against the male-oriented
    linguistics, against the suffocating subordination experienced by women. “I am proud of
    having been born as a woman,” she said. “My foremost duty is to write fearlessly about gender-
    biased, marginalised, and body-bound woman. And I am proud of myself when I perform this
    duty.” Recently she took up a journey with other activists, to Manipur to meet Irom Chanu
    Sharmila and declare her support to the fasting woman.

    The awards she received include, among others, the Sahitya Akademi award, the Kerala
    Sahitya Akademi award, the O. Chanthumenon award, the Vayalar award and the Cross World
    award for the English version of Othappu.

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