Githa Hariharan

Githa Hariharan was born in 1954 in Coimbatore, India, and grew up in Bombay and Manila. She was educated in these two cities and in the United States. She worked as a staff writer in WNET-Channel 13 in New York, and from 1979, she has worked in Bombay, Madras and New Delhi as an editor, first in a publishing house, then as a freelancer. Her published work includes novels, short stories, essays, newspaper articles and columns. Her first novel, The Thousand Faces of Night (1992) won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1993. Her other novels include The Ghosts of Vasu Master (1994), When Dreams Travel (1999), In Times of Siege (2003), and Fugitive Histories (2009). She has been Visiting Professor or Writer-in-Residence in universities in several countries.