tutudutta
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Children's & YA Books |
| Location | Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia |
| Introduction | Tutu Dutta is the collector and raconteur of tales. She was born in Churachandpur in India. As a toddler, she left the green hills and farmlands for Calcutta and from there to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which was a quiet little town then. She has also lived in Kuching, Sarawak as a child. As an undergraduate at Universiti Putra Malaysia, she won a scholarship from Japan Airlines to spend a summer in Japan, which was a life-changing experience. As a post-graduate student at the University of Malaya, she also had a chance to study in France for a year. She is an International Nomad who has lived in Singapore (where her daughter was born), Lagos, New York, Havana and Zagreb. While in New York, her passion for folklore and children's literature inspired her to research and write some of the stories in "Twelve Treasures of the East", which she co-authored with Lucy Bedoya-Maire, illustrated by James Konatich. She has since had eight more books published, five of which are collections of Asian folktales, including, Timeless Tales of Malaysia, in 2009 and Nights of the Dark Moon in 2017. Phoenix Song, her first picture book (illustrated by Martina Peluso) was published in 2015. |
| Interests | Books, children's books, folklore, movies, anime, music, fashion, traditional costumes, travel, art & nature |
| Favorite Music | Mozart, Queen, Evanescence, The Cranberries, Fall Out Boy, 30 Seconds to Mars! and One Republic |
| Favorite Books | Crooked House, Murder on the Orient Express & Curtains by Agatha Christie, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowlings, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien, Peony Lantern by Ruth Manley, The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis, Orlando by Virginia Wolfe, A Mid-Summer's Night Dream by William Shakespeare and The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke |
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