Rajni Mala Khelawan

Rajni Mala Khelawan is an Indo-Fijian Canadian writer. Her two published novels are The End of the Dark and Stormy Night (2008) and Kalyana (2016). Khelawan was a visiting writer at The University of the South Pacific, Fiji Islands in August 2011, and a Writer in Residence at Fiji National University in 2014. In addition, Khelawan was profiled on hit TV and radio shows such as Bollywood Boulevard, CBC Radio, Omni South Asian News, Asian Magazine TV, and NUTV. She completed her Master of Arts Degree at University of Toronto. Her third novel In the Shade of a Bougainvillea Hedge is forthcoming. Her academic research studied gender and ritual among Fijian Hindu women under the prestigious SSHRC grant. Currently, she lives in Toronto and is working on her fourth novel under the Canada Council for the Arts grant.