Githa Hariharan

Githa Hariharan (born 1954) is an Indian writer and editor based in New Delhi. Her first novel, ''The Thousand Faces of Night'', won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the best first novel in 1993. Her other works include the short story collection ''The Art of Dying'' (1993), the novels ''The Ghosts of Vasu Master'' (1994), ''When Dreams Travel'' (1999), ''In Times of Siege'' (2003), ''Fugitive Histories'' (2009) and ''I Have Become the Tide'' (2019), and a collection of essays entitled ''Almost Home: Cities and Other Places'' (2014).

Hariharan has also written children's stories and co-edited a collection for children called ''Sorry, Best Friend!'' (1997). She has also edited a collection of translated short fiction, ''A Southern Harvest'' (1993), the essay collection ''From India to Palestine: Essays in Solidarity'' (2014) and co-edited ''Battling for India: A Citizen’s Reader'' (2019). Provided by Wikipedia