ANITA NAIR

Anita Nair was born in Shoranur, Kerala and did her schooling in Chennai. She majored in English literature. While she was attracted to journalism as a career she eventually chose advertising and gave it up in 2001 to become a full time writer.
Her novels include The Better Man, Ladies Coupe, Mistress, Lessons in Forgetting and Cut LikeWound. She has also published a collection of poems titled Malabar Mind and a collection of essays titled Goodnight & God Bless. Anita has also written two plays and the screenplay for the movie adaptation of her novel Lessons in Forgetting which is part of the Indian Panorama at IFFI 2012 and won the National Film Award in 2013. Her books have been published in over 30 languages around the world. She lives in Bangalore with her husband and her son.

Awards & Felicitations: 

• Chosen as one of the 30 Power Women in India for the year 2006 by India Today magazine in their roll call of honour. 
• Was part of Triangle Media Group Global top 50 hot list of 2006-07 in the category of Fashion, Literature and Arts.
• She was felicitated by Montblanc in 2009 as part of their Signature for Good initiative with UNICEF for her contribution to literature, enforcing cross cultural endeavours and enlightening experiences that have transcended an inexhaustible diversity of forms - barriers of language, cultures and identities.
• Anita Nair was awarded the FLO FICCI Women Achievers Awards 2008 for Literature.
• She was awarded the Women of Substance Award 2010 by the Times Group for the outstanding contribution in the field of literature.
• She was awarded the JFW [South India's leading women's magazine] award for literary excellence for the year 2010.In May 2012 she was honoured by the Kerala Sahitya Akademi for her contribution to Literature and Culture.
• In October 2012 she was awarded Arch of Excellence Award by the All India Achievers’ Conference, New Delhi for Literature.