NAVTEJ SARNA

Navtej Sarna is the author the novel, Crimson Spring, which won the KLF award for the Best Fiction Book of 2022 and was longlisted for
the Dublin Literary Award and the JCB Prize for Literature 2022.
His earlier works include the novels The Exile and We Weren’t Lovers Like That; the short story collection Winter Evenings; non-fiction titles Second Thoughts, The Book of Nanak and Indians at Herod’s Gate; as well as the translations Savage Harvest and Zafarnama. He is a regular contributor to journals both in India and abroad. A professional diplomat for nearly four decades, Sarna was India’s ambassador to the United States, high commissioner to the UK and ambassador to Israel. He has also served as secretary to the
Government of India and as the foreign office spokesperson. His earlier diplomatic assignments were in Moscow, Warsaw, Thimphu, Tehran, Geneva and Washington DC.