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Preeta samarasan biography of albert einstein
Preeta Samarasan
Malaysian author writing in English
Preeta Samarasan is a Malaysian author writing in English whose first novel, Evening Is the Whole Day, won the Hopwood Novel Award[1] (while she was doing her MFA at the University of Michigan), was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2009, and was on the longlist for the Orange Prize for Fiction.[2] A number of short stories have also appeared in different magazines; “Our House Stands in a City of Flowers” won the Hyphen Asian American Short Story Contest or the Asian American Writers' Workshop/Hyphen Short Story award in 2007.[3]
Life
Samarasan was born in Batu Gajah.[4] Her father was a schoolteacher[5] in Ipoh in Malaysia, where she attended the SM (Sekolah Menengah) Convent School.
In 1992, she won a United World College scholarship and went to the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West in New Mexico, United States. After graduating in 19