Sessions
Magic Realism and Mythology
KR Meera with Nisha Susan
Method in The Madness: Writers Tell All
Cyrus Mistry, KR Meera, Manu Joseph, Tabish Khair, Vikram Chandra with Karthika VK
Bio
K.R. Meera is a multi-award-winning writer and columnist who has published more than a dozen books including short stories, novels and essays, winning some of the most prestigious literary prizes including the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for short story and novel, the Vayalar Award and the Odakkuzhal Award. In 2015 she won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for Aarachar, widely hailed as a contemporary classic and the best seller in Malayalam with more than 150,000 copies in less than three years. It is published by Penguin Books India as Hangwoman and was short listed for the DSC literary prize. Her other translated works include Yellow Is The Colour Of Longing, The Gospel of Yudas, The Poison Of Love , The Unseeing Idol Of Light ( all published by Penguin) and And Slowly Forgetting That Tree ( OUP). She lives in Kottayam with her husband Dileep and daughter Shruthi.