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Payal Kapadia is an Indian author of Children's books. She is the recipient of the 2013 Crossword Book Award (Children's Literature) for Wisha Wozzariter.

Biography

Payal Kapadia was born in 1975 in Mumbai, India. She studied English literature at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai and received a M.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University in Chicago. She has worked as a journalist with Outlook in Bombay and as an Editor with The Japan Times in Tokyo.

Awards

• 2013 Crossword Book Award (Children's Literature) for Wisha Wozzariter

Publications

Young Readers

• Horrid High, Penguin India (2014), ISBN 978-0143333173
• Puffin Lives: B. R. Ambedkar, Saviour of the Masses, Penguin India (2014), ISBN 978-0143332282
• Wisha Wozzariter, Penguin India (2012), ISBN 978-0143332114
• Untold Tales from The Jungle Book: Col Hathi Loses his Brigade, The Walt Disney Company (2010), ISBN 978-9380594408

References

1. ^ "'Popular choice' ruled at book awards". Times of India. 7 December 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
2. "Payal Kapadia | Jaipur Literature Festival". Archived from the original on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
3. "Payal Kapadia | Penguin Books India". Archived from the original on 26 January 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2014.

External links

• Payal Kapadia, official website
• Payal Kapadia at Goodreads
• Interviews

• "I Write In Confusion And Crisis" – Businessworld, 23 May 2012
• The Hindu 23 May 2012
• Live interview at Bookaroo 2012
• F-Page - Payal Kapadia 2015

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