Nizrana Farook

Nizrana Farook is the best-selling author of The Girl Who Stole an Elephant and other books in the series. She was born and raised in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and the beautiful landscapes of her home country find their way into the stories she writes. She has been nominated for the Carnegie medal and long-listed for the Blue Peter Award and Jhalak Prize. Her debut novel was the biggest selling MG debut of the year and was Waterstones Children's Book of the Month. Her books have featured on Blue Peter, Channel 5, the Guardian, Telegraph, Daily Mail and Financial Times. She has a master’s degree in writing for young people, and lives with her family in Hertfordshire.