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David Davidar (born 27 September 1958) is an Indian novelist and publisher. He is the author of three published novels, ''The House of Blue Mangoes'' (2002), ''The Solitude of Emperors'' (2007) and ''Ithaca'' (2011). In parallel to his writing career, Davidar has been a publisher for a quarter century. He is the co-founder of Aleph Book Company, a literary publishing firm based in New Delhi.〔Forbes India, 10 June 2011〕 ==Personal life== David Davidar was born in Nagercoil, Kanyakumari district in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.〔Toronto Life, October 2007〕 His father was a tea planter in Kerala and his mother was a teacher. Davidar grew up in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, and both states feature prominently in his fiction. He has one sibling, Ruth Swamy, a nutritionist and dietician.〔The Hindu, 25 March 2001〕 He attended Sainik School, Amaravathinagar in Coimbatore district (Presently in Tirupur District) and then earned a BSc degree in Botany from Madras Christian College in 1979. In 1985, he obtained a diploma in publishing from the Radcliffe Publishing Procedures Course at Harvard University〔Hindustan Times, 14 August 2011〕 Davidar has been married to Rachna Singh, a bookseller, since 1997. She has worked at The Bookshop in New Delhi which her family owns, as well as at bookstores in Canada, among them, Nicholas Hoare, Ben McNally Books and McNally Robinson. In 2010, after he was accused by a former colleague of sexual harassment, Davidar and Penguin parted ways. He dismissed the allegations〔Outlook magazine, 21 June 2010〕 which were dropped after the parties reached a settlement.〔National Post, 6 July 2010〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Davidar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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