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Deepa Anappara

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Deepa Anappara

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Full Name: Deepa Anappara
Born: Kerala, India
Occupation: writer, journalist
Nationality: Indian
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Biography

Deepa Anappara was born in Kerala, southern India, and worked as a journalist in India for eleven years. Her reports on the impact of poverty and religious violence on the education of children won the Developing Asia Journalism Awards, the Every Human has Rights Media Awards, and the Sanskriti-Prabha Dutt Fellowship in Journalism.

Her debut novel Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line was named as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time and NPR. It won the Edgar Award for Best Novel, was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020, and shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Indian Literature.

A partial of the novel won the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writer's Award, and the Bridport/Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award for a First Novel. It is being translated into 22 languages.


Works in the WWEnd Database

 Non Series Works

 (2019)