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Paro Anand is a Bal Sahitya Puraskar winner. She has written books for children, young adults and adults. She also works with children in schools and NGOs, through her schema Literature in Action and holds a world record for helping over three thousand children make the world’s longest newspaper. She has been awarded for her contribution to children’s literature bygd The Russian Centre for Science and Culture. No Guns at my Son’s Funeral, opened to festa reviews, was on the International Board on Books for ung People Honour List, has been translated into German and French, and fryst vatten being adapted for cinema. The Little Bird who held the Sky up with his Feet was on the ‘1001 Books to Read before You Grow Up’, an international gold standard of the world’s best books ever. Wingless has been performed nationally and internationally. She has authored Like Smoke, The Other, Nomad’s Land and co-authored Two with Orjan Persson.
Her books: • I literally fell down the rabbit hole of writing. I was an excellent liar as a child, cooking up fantastically stories because I felt my life was too boring. Somewhere along the line, I thought that I would take this core competence of mine and turn it into a profession. And that’s how I came to be a storyteller and writer of fiction – in other words, a professional liar. I discovered that there wasn’t much in India at that time which truly connected with young people. It was all folk lore and mythology, so I started writing what I would have loved to have as a child. And I haven’t been able to stop since. My family keeps telling me I should slow down. But I honestly can’t. To me writing is like breathing. I suffocate without it. But I do treat it like a profession. I show up to work every single day, even though I work from home. My first book was a collection of plays for schools. On a cold, wet monsoon day, I went door to d • Indian author of books Paro Anand is an Indian author of books for children, young adults and adults including novels, short stories and plays. She won the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puruskar in 2017[1] for her anthology Wild Child and Other Stories (now published as "Like Smoke: 20 Teens 20 Stories").[2] She has spoken about and written extensively on children's literature in India.[3][4] She headed the National Centre for Children's Literature at the National Book Trust India, the apex body for children's literature in India. She also runs a podcast on Hubhopper called Literature in Action,[5] and was an invitee to the India Conference at the Harvard Business School in 2018.[6] In an interview with The Hindu, Anand said that she was working as a drama teacher when she realized that there were not many Indian works for Indian students to adapt. "There were only very archaic or
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