Anita Nair

Anita Nair is the internationally acclaimed author of the novels The Better Man, Ladies Coupe, Mistress, Lessons in Forgetting and Cut Like Wound. Her new novel Idris : Keeper of the Light was short-listed for The Hindu Literary Prize. She has also published a collection of poems titled Malabar Mind and a collection of essays titled Goodnight & God Bless, and has written two plays and the screenplay for the movie adaptation of her novel Lessons in Forgetting which won the Indian National Film Award for 2012. She was awarded the Central Sahitya Akademi award for her contribution to Children's Literature in 2013. Her books have been translated into 30 languages. Her new novella L'Alfabeto Delle Spezie has just been published in Italy She also runs a Creative Writing Mentorship program in Bangalore called Anita's Attic. Visit her at www.anitanair.net and www.anitasattic.com or follow her on twitter and instagram @anitanairauthor