Bio
Radhika Swarup is a lapsed banker and now works as a company director and a writer. Her work explores the themes of identity and exile. Her last novel Civil Lines looked at India’s 2018 Me Too moment, and was longlisted for the Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Best Novel Award. Where the River Parts, her debut novel, dealt with the lives and fortunes of a Hindu–Muslim couple parted in Punjab during the Partition of India and Pakistan and was chosen by Amazon India as one of their memorable books of 2016. It was also long listed by the Authors’ Club for the Best First Novel Award. Radhika lives in London and visits Delhi often.