Nirmala Moorthy

Nirmala Moorthy, a journalist for several decades, has published articles and short stories in a dozen countries in Asia, Africa and the USA. In India she has written for The Times of India, the Hindustan Times, the Hindu, the Illustrated Weekly, Femina and Eve's Weekly. Ten of her short stories have been published in North American magazines and anthologies.

As a fiction writer Moorthy has established her competence beyond question. Her first three novels are set in India: Maya, published in 1997 was later translated into Polish by Dialog in Warsaw. Her second novel The Coiled Serpent was published by Clocktower Books in 2000, and her third novel The River Turned Red was brought out by Publish America in 2003. Her fourth book is a collection of short stories most of which have been published--sometimes more than once-- in newspapers and magazines across the world.

Nirmala Moorthy grew up in India and now lives in California. Details and reviews of her books can be found on her web page at nirmalamoorthy.com.

Tales of the Raj--

Goodreads .com, the popular web site for book-lovers, started a new book list to celebrate India’s Independence Day—Saturday, August 15, 2015. The list includes 93 fictional works written about British and post-British India in the order of their popularity. The address for the site:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/79493.Tales_of_the_Raj

Moorthy's three novels, Maya, The Coiled Serpent, and The River Turned Red have made their way to the top of the Goodreads List.

The current statistics as of August 20, 2015 —

#1--Maya by Nirmala Moorthy with a score of 599.

#2—The Coiled Serpent by Nirmala Moorthy with a score of 594

#3—The River turned Red by Nirmala Moorthy with a score of 523.