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Born in 1969, Anne was a journalist for fifteen years. A former blogger specializing in children’s literature, she has written more than seventy books for young readers and teenagers, with publishing houses like Thierry Magnier (Car Boy), Nathan, Alice jeunesse, Bulles de savon, À pas de loups, Frimousse, Editions des Braques, among others. Her books, always evoking the personal issues of contemporary young people, are often studied in schools and won many awards. Anne often sets up creative writing workshops for children in schools and libraries.

A journalist for youth magazines, Adèle has also published several picture books.

As a teacher trained to interact with disabled children, Marie gets her inspiration from her everyday life at school and in the little town where she lives, in the country. She shows a writing talent that you will probably hear about in the next few years.

As a child Menaka Raman used to write far-fetched stories about birthday parties, water parks and floating cake disasters. As an adult, she continues to write stories-some are still far-fetched while others are not. She is the author of several picture books, short stories, and a young adult novel. When she is not killing plants and walking the family dog Woody, she is eating Nutella straight from the jar and baking very bad cakes.

Dan Brown is the author of the one of the most widely-read novel all over the world, Da Vinci Code, and two international bestsellers, The Last Symbol and Angels and Demons, featuring his celebrated character as their protagonist, the Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon. Brown’s other well-known works include Inferno, Origins, Deception Point and Digital Fortress.

Ajay Sharma was born to the first family of Ayurveda – the Baidyanath Group – which now completes 100 years of caring and has seen four generations own and manage it.

Sharma began his formal education at St Joseph’s Convent, Allahabad, completing it at Mayo College, Ajmer, and graduated from the University of Allahabad. He studied family business management at SP Jain institute, Mumbai at the ripe age of 35.

A leading name in healthcare, he is on the Board of Governors of the Santokba Durlabhji Memorial Hospital, Jaipur, and the founding Board Member of Chaudhury Brahm Prakash Ayurvedic Charak Sansthan, New Delhi. He is the recipient of the Nagarjuna Award, the highest award in Ayurveda. He has also received the Super Brand Award for Baidyanath Chawanprash.

Ajay Sharma also pursued photography and took art lessons from senior artist Prakash Karmakar. Sharma paints occasionally and actively collects art. He is also on the panel of judges for the Dhoomimal Art Gallery-sponsored Ravi Jain Annual Art Award for upcoming artists. A vintage car lover, he owns a Chevy 1927, which is the oldest American car on Indian roads.

He works and lives in the city of his birth, Delhi, with his family.

Devdutt Pattanaik is a medical doctor by education, a leadership consultant by profession and a mythologist by passion. He has written and lectured extensively on the nature of sacred stories, symbols and rituals and their relevance in modern times. His books with Penguin India include The Book of Ram, Myth = Mithya: A Handbook of Hindu Mythology, The Pregnant King, Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana and the Devlok series of stories for children. Devdutt’s unconventional approach and engaging style are evident in his lectures, books and articles. To know more visit www.devdutt.com.

Divya Arya has been telling people’s stories for almost two decades now. Navigating video, audio and text mediums across English and Hindi languages, she explores burning human rights and social justice issues with a gender lens. An award-winning journalist currently with the BBC she has also presented the global news programme OS on BBC World Service Radio from its London newsroom and launched the chat show WorklifeIndia on BBC World News TV from Delhi. Divya is the first journalist from India to be chosen as Knight Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. Her research was published in the collection of essays, Breaching the Citadel. She lives in Delhi.