Deepa Agarwal

Author, Poet and Translator, Deepa Agarwal writes for both children and adults and has over 60 books published. A frequent contributor to magazines and journals in India and abroad, she has edited and compiled several anthologies. Gender equality, social injustice and the environment are some of the main themes in her writing.

She received the N.C.E.R.T. National Award for Children’s Literature for Ashok’s New Friends, Caravan to Tibet was on the IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Honour List 2008, Journey to the Forbidden City on the Parag Honour List 2020 and shortlisted for the Neev Book Award while her poetry collection Forgotten Kaleidoscopes was shortlisted for the PVLF Best Poetry Award. Her work has been translated into several Indian and foreign languages. The Begum (Penguin Random House India), Blessed (Hachette India), Kashmir!Kashmir! (Scholastic India) and Forgotten Kaleidoscopes (Authorspress) are among her latest titles.