Karthika Nair

Karthika Naïr is a poet, playwright, fabulist and dance scenarist. Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata , her reworking of the foundational South Asian epic in multiple voices, won the 2015 Tata Literature Live Award for Book of the Year (India). Les Oiseaux électriques de Pothakudi - her latest children's book illustrated by Joëlle Jolivet - won the 2023 Prix Felipé for "ecological children's literature", and was shortlisted for the 2023 Prix Franco-Allemand de la littérature de...See more

Karthika Naïr is a poet, playwright, fabulist and dance scenarist. Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata , her reworking of the foundational South Asian epic in multiple voices, won the 2015 Tata Literature Live Award for Book of the Year (India). Les Oiseaux électriques de Pothakudi - her latest children's book illustrated by Joëlle Jolivet - won the 2023 Prix Felipé for "ecological children's literature", and was shortlisted for the 2023 Prix Franco-Allemand de la littérature de jeunesse. The dance performances she has scripted and co-scripted include Akram Khan's multiple-award-winning DESH and Carlos Pons Guerra's Mariposa , a queer reimagining of Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly. See less