“I keep telling all aspiring authors, please don’t quit your day job. “- Kiran Manral (Indian Author)
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Team Kitaab is in conversation with Indian author Kiran Manral as a part of the South Asian Women Writers Feature.
For the whole of March, we will be featuring South Asian Women Writers on Kitaab for the whole of March. You can read the editor’s note to know more about this.
Today, we are featuring, Indian author Kiran Manral who writes across genres with equal elan. She is a popular writer who carves unforgettable characters in her stories. Kiran is known for creating strong female protagonists in all her works.
She has been awarded the International Women’s Day Award 2018 by the Indian Council for UN Relations supported by the Ministry of Women and Child Welfare, Government of India, for excellence in the field of writing. She was listed as one of the Womennovator 1000 Women of Asia 2021. In 2022, she was named amongst the 75 Iconic Indian women in STEAM by Red Dot Foundation and Beyond Black, in collaboration with the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor, Government of India, and British High Commission, New Delhi. She lives in Mumbai with her family and can be reached on twitter @KiranManral.
