Deepa Anappara Follow

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 longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2020. It was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a New York Times Notable Book of 2020, one of Washington Post’s Best Thrillers and Mystery Books of 2020, and one of Time magazine’s 2020 must-reads. 

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.