Spinning Yarns: The Best Children’s Stories from India

Formerly a lecturer in a Delhi University college, Deepa Agarwal has authored more than twenty-five books both in English and Hindi. Her awards include the NCERT National Award for Children’s Literature and a first prize in The Asian Age short story competition among several others. Apart from writing fiction she writes poetry and translations from Hindi into English. She has received fellowships from the International Institute of Children’s Literature in Vienna, Austria and the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, New Delhi to pursue another of her interests, researching children’s literature. Deepa lives in Delhi with her businessman husband and has three daughters.