Bio
K.R. Meera is a multi-award-winning writer and journalist who has published more than a dozen books, including short stories, novels and essays, and won 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. Last year, she won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for Aarachar, widely hailed as a contemporary classic and a bestseller in Malayalam with more than 120,000 copies in less than three years. It was published in English 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 and And Slowly Forgetting That Tree. She lives in Kottayam.