Sonali Prasad

Bio

Sonali Prasad’s journalism has appeared in publications such as The Guardian, The Washington Post, Hakai Magazine, Quartz, and Esquire Singapore. She has been awarded a Pulitzer Travelling Fellowship, Global TED Fellowship, MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship, Logan Science Journalism Fellowship and a Jan Michalski Writing Residency, among other grants and honours. Her debut novel, Glass Bottom, was published with Picador India (2024) as their ‘literary debut of the year’ and was shortlisted for the Kalinga Literary Festival Book Award in the category ‘Debut (English)’. Prasad has also reported at several Olympic Games, including the London 2012 Olympics, the Sochi 2014 Winter Games, the Rio 2016 Paralympics and the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Paralympics. She was a mentor at the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games for the International Olympic Committee Young Reporters Programme and the youngest member to be appointed to the International Olympic Committee Press Committee from 2012 to 2021.