“Every work of fiction must walk the fine line between being possible and being plausible.”- Payal Kapadia (Author- Woebegone’s Warehouse of words)
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Team Kitaab is in conversation with Payal Kapadia, author of Woebegone’s Warehouse of Words (Hachette India, 2024).
Payal Kapadia studied English Literature at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, before earning an M.Sc. (Journalism) from Northwestern University, Chicago. Her debut novella Wisha Wozzariter won the 2013 Crossword Book Award for Children’s Writing and is in the 101 Indian Children’s Books We Love! compilation.
Her other books include the well-loved and widely read Horrid High series; Colonel Hathi Loses His Brigade (Disney); Puffin Lives: B.R. Ambedkar; and Twice Upon a Time (Puffin), which made it to the Parag Honour List. Her adult book Maidless in Mumbai (Bloomsbury) was Top Pick on Amazon.
Her latest work is Woebegone’s Warehouse of Words (Published by Hachette India, 2024) that melds fantasy and magical realism to voice the most urgent – and scorching – questions of our times. How do we think, feel, imagine or remember when the words are missing? In a toss-up between freedom and survival, what wins? And in a world where lies shape-shift as the truth, of what value is a story?
