Elected: 2024
Sunetra is the author of the novels Memories of Rain, The Glassblower’s Breath, Moonlight into Marzipan, A Sin of Color and, most recently, So Good in Black. Her novels have been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Southern Arts Literature Prize, and longlisted for the Orange Prize and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. She is currently Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of Oxford.
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