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| is | Writer | |
| Work field | Literature | |
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| Birth | 1968 | |
| Age | 57 years |
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Rokkiah Begum alias Rajathi Salma (born 1968) is an Indian Tamil Muslim author, columnist, social worker and speaker. Rajathi Salma is now a celebrated Tamil writer, her novel The Hours Past Midnight has been long-listed for the Man Asian Booker Prize.
Early life
Rajathi Salma was born in Thuvarankurichi in Tamil Nadu, India. When Salma was 13 years old her family stopped her studies and forced her into marriage. She started composing poems on scraps of paper and sneaking them out of the house.
At the age of 17, she published Kala Chuvadu.