Githa Hariharan

Githa Hariharan’s first novel, The Thousand Faces of Night (1992) won the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Since then, she has published a collection of stories, The Art of Dying (1993); three novels, The Ghosts of Vasu Master (1994), When Dreams Travel (1999), and In Times of Siege (2003); and a collection of stories for children, The Winning Team (2004). She has also edited A Southern Harvest, a volume of stories in English translation from four major South Indian languages, and co-edited a collection of stories for Indian children, Sorry, Best Friend! Hariharan’s work has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Greek, Urdu and Malayalam; her essays and fiction have also been included in several collections and anthologies, such as Salman Rushdie’s Mirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian Writing 1947-1997.

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