Archives: Authors

Gowri Ramnarayan is a playwright, theatre director, journalist, and vocal accompanist to legendary musician M.S. Subbulakshmi. She has translated two plays by Marathi playwright Vijay Tendulkar, and the Tamil short stories and biography of Kalki Krishnamurthy.

Arvind Panagariya is chairman of the Sixteenth Finance Commission, Government of India, with the rank of a cabinet minister. He is also a professor of economics at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He was the first vice chairman of the NITI Aayog, Government of India. He has authored over twenty books, published professional articles in all the top economics journals, and written for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and the Wall Street Journal. In 2012, the Government of India awarded him with the Padma Bhushan, its third-highest civilian honour.

Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. After university, she became a reporter for a Japanese newspaper based in Sydney before moving back to Tokyo to work as a magazine editor. What You are Looking for is in the Library was shortlisted for the Japan Booksellers’ Award, was a Time Book of the Year and a New York Times Book of the Month. It has sold two million copies and is being published in over thirty territories. Her new healing fiction title Recovery Hippo will be published internationally. Aoyama lives in Yokohama, Japan.

Michiko Aoyama (Author)
Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. After university, she became a reporter for a Japanese newspaper based in Sydney before moving back to Tokyo to work as a magazine editor. What You are Looking for is in the Library was shortlisted for the Japan Booksellers’ Award, was a Time Book of the Year and a New York Times Book of the Month. It has sold two million copies and is being published in over thirty territories. Her new healing fiction title Recovery Hippo will be published internationally. Aoyama lives in Yokohama, Japan.

Emily Henry is the author of the butterfly-inducing romantic comedies Beach Read, You & Me on Vacation, Book Lovers and Happy Place, all of which were New York Times bestsellers, with Book Lovers and Happy Place being Sunday Times bestsellers. She studied creative writing at Hope College and now lives and writes in the American Midwest. Funny Story is her fifth novel.

Before becoming a full-time writer, Liz Nugent worked in film, theatre and television. Her five novels – Unravelling Oliver, Lying in Wait, Skin Deep, Our Little Cruelties and Strange Sally Diamond – have each been Number One bestsellers and she has won four Irish Book Awards, as well as the James Joyce Medal for Literature. She lives in Dublin.