Manju Kapur taught English literature in Miranda House College, Delhi University for over 25 years. Her first novel, Difficult Daughter published in 1998, won the commonwealth prize for best novel. Manju Kapur is an Indian wrtier living in New Delhi. She is one of the noted South Asian women writers of today. She studied and received an M.A. in1972 from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, and an M.Phil from Delhi University.