Deepa Anappara

Deepa Anappara worked as a journalist in Mumbai and Delhi, and her reports on the impact of poverty and religious violence on the education of children won the Developing Asia Journalism Award, the Every Human Has Rights Media Award and the Sanskriti-Prabha Dutt Fellowship in Journalism. A portion of her debut novel, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, won the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award and the Bridport/Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award for a First Novel. She has an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, where she is currently studying for a creative-critical writing PhD on a CHASE doctoral fellowship.