Manjula Padmanabhan

Manjula Padmanabhan is a writer, artist, cartoonist and playwright. Harvest, her fifth play, won the 1997 Onassis Prize for Theatre in Greece. She is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including Getting There, Hot Death, Cold Soup and Three Virgins and Other Stories. Her most recent novel, The Island of Lost Girls, was published by Hachette India in 2016. Her cartoon strip SukiYaki currently appears weekly in The Hindu BusinessLine, Chennai. She has illustrated twenty-four books...See more

Manjula Padmanabhan is a writer, artist, cartoonist and playwright. Harvest, her fifth play, won the 1997 Onassis Prize for Theatre in Greece. She is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including Getting There, Hot Death, Cold Soup and Three Virgins and Other Stories. Her most recent novel, The Island of Lost Girls, was published by Hachette India in 2016. Her cartoon strip SukiYaki currently appears weekly in The Hindu BusinessLine, Chennai. She has illustrated twenty-four books for children See less