Samanth Subramanian

Samanth Subramanian’s journalism has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, New Yorker, Bloomberg and WIRED. Following Fish won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize in 2010 and was shortlisted for the Andre Simon Award in 2013. His second book, This Divided Island, won the 2015 Crossword Prize for Non-Fiction and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Non Fiction Prize and the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize the same year. His third book, A Dominant Character, was featured in the New York Times ‘100 Notable Books of 2020’ and Wall Street Journal’s ‘Ten Best Books of 2020’. His latest book is The Web Beneath the Waves, an exploration of the undersea data cables that gird our planet and make our online world possible—and of the chaos that follows when they snap.