Vidya Subramaniam (born 1957) is a

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author. She has been writing

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s and

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for close to three decades. Born and brought up in

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, she has to her credit 100 books and has won awards including a

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State Award. An anthology of her short stories has been translated into English titled ''Beyond the Frontier''. Two of her short stories have also been translated and featured in a book titled ''Anthology of Tamil

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'' from the Blaft stable.

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