Art of Dying Stories

Born in Coimbatore, India, Githa Hariharan grew up in Bombay and Manila. She was educated in those two cities and later in the United States. Her first novel, The Thousand Faces of Night won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book in 1993. Her essays and fiction have also been included in anthologies such as Salman Rushdie's show more Mirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian Writing 1947-1997. She lives in New Delhi. show less