Paro Anand is a Sahitya Akademi, Bal Sahitya Award winner for her book Wild Child, now published as Like Smoke, with additional content. She has written books for children, young adults and adults. She also works with children, especially those in difficult circumstances, through her program ‘Literature in Action’ and holds a world record for helping over three thousand children make the world’s longest newspaper. She was invited to speak at the Harvard India Conference, USA on Disruptive Innovation in Literature for Young Adults and Children.
She has been awarded for her contribution to children’s literature by The Russian Centre for Science and Culture. No Guns at my Son’s Funeral, which opened to rave reviews and was on the International Board on Books for Young People’s Honour List, has been translated into German and French. She headed the National Centre for Children’s Literature.
The Little Bird who Held the Sky Up with his Feet was on the 1001 Books to Read before You Grow Up list, an international gold standard of the world’s best books ever. Wingless has been performed nationally and internationally. She has co-authored 2, a graphic novel, with Swedish writer, Orjan Perrson.
In 2019, she was awarded the Kalinga Karubaki Literary Award for Fearless Women Writers.
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