“I’m aware of my privileges because I don’t have to depend on my fiction to put food on the table. “- Damyanti Biswas (Indian author)

Team Kitaab is in conversation with Indian Author Damyanti Biswas 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. You can read the editor’s note to know more about this.

Today, we are featuring Damyanti Biswas. Damyanti is an Indian author currently based in Singapore.

She’s the author of You Beneath Your Skin, an Amazon-bestselling crime novel, which has been optioned for screens by Endemol Shine.

Her next crime novel, The Blue Bar was published by Thomas & Mercer USA and was one of 2023’s Most Anticipated Mysteries & Thrillers on Goodreads.

Her short fiction has been published at Smokelong, Ambit, Litro, Puerto del Sol, among others, and she’s the coeditor of The Forge literary magazine.