Sharanya Manivannan
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Manivannan was born in India. She lived in Sri Lanka, Malaysia and from 2007 she is residing in Chennai, India.[3][1] She received the Lavanya Sankaran Fellowship for 2008–2009. She writes a column, the 'Venus Flytrap' in the New Indian Express.[4]
Her 2018 book The Queen of Jasmine County is a fictionalised account of the 9th century Tamil Hindu poet Andal.[5] She combined prose with poetry in her lyrical novel where she imagines a young Kodhai transforming into poet goddess Andal.[6]
Selected works
Some of her books are:[7]
- Incantations Over Water (graphic novel, 2021)
- Mermaids In The Moonlight (picturebook, 2021)[8]
- The Queen of Jasmine Country (novel, 2018)[5][9]
- The Altar of the Only World (poetry, 2017)[10]
- The High Priestess Never Marries (short fiction, 2016)
- The Ammuchi Puchi (picturebook, 2016) and
- Witchcraft (poetry, 2008).
