Satendra Nandan

Nandan was born in Uttar Pradesh, India. After completing his secondary education he studied in Delhi, from where he obtained his degree in engineering. After teaching in various schools in India, he joined the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji in 1969. As a young academic in India, he taught at the all-boys' boarding school The Doon School in Dehradun.[1]

He entered in politics in Fiji as a member. As the National Federation Party began to fragment, he joined politics. He won the election on the Fiji Labour Party ticket and was the Minister of Health, Social Welfare and Women's Affairs on the month-long Bavadra Government.[2] He served as National Spokesperson for the party.

After the coup of 1987, he migrated to Australia and took up a position at the Australian National University in Canberra. At present he is a professor of literature and director of the Centre for Writing. He has also provided his support to newly established journals at the University of Fiji by taking up the position of professor of humanities and the arts.

• Nandan, Satendra P. (2018). 1987: Six Nights in May - Death in Paradise. Suva, Fiji: USP Press. ISBN 978-9-82010-984-1. OCLC 1088425955. 0-85174-111-8.
• Nandan (2001). Requiem for a rainbow : a Fijian Indian story. Pacific Indian Publications, Canberra. ISBN 0-64641-589-1. OCLC 1057994370.
• Nandan, Satendra P. (1991). Faces in a village : poetry from Fiji. Adelaide: Pacific Indian Publications. OCLC 946490038.
• Nandan, Satendra P. (1977). Lines across black waters. Adelaide: Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English. ISBN 0-85174-111-8. OCLC 38816534.
• Nandan, Satendra P. (2000). Faces in a village: Poetry from Fiji. Sydney.

• Nandan, Kavita (2005). Stolen Worlds: Fijiindian Fragments. Ivy Press International. ISBN 0-9757223-0-1.