Sharanya Manivannan (born 1985) is an Indian author, columnist and poet. [1] [2]
Manivannan was born in India. She lived in Sri Lanka, Malaysia and from 2007 she is residing in Chennai, India. [3] [1] She received the Lavanya Sankaran Fellowship for 2008–2009. She writes a column, the 'Venus Flytrap' in the New Indian Express. [4]
Her 2018 book The Queen of Jasmine County is a fictionalised account of the 9th century Tamil Hindu poet Andal. [5] She combined prose with poetry in her lyrical novel where she imagines a young Kodhai transforming into poet goddess Andal. [6]
Some of her books are: [7]
Her book The High Priestess Never Marries received the 2016 South Asia Laadli award. [4]