Payal Kapadia (author)

Payal Kapadia is an Indian author of Children's books. She is the recipient of the 2013 Crossword Book Award (Children's Literature) for Wisha Wozzariter.

Payal Kapadia was born in 1975 in Mumbai, India. She studied English literature at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai and received a M.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University in Chicago. She has worked as a journalist with Outlook in Bombay and as an Editor with The Japan Times in Tokyo.^[2][3]

• 2013 Crossword Book Award (Children's Literature) for Wisha Wozzariter^[1]

• Horrid High, Penguin India (2014), ISBN 978-0143333173
• Puffin Lives: B. R. Ambedkar, Saviour of the Masses, Penguin India (2014), ISBN 978-0143332282
• Wisha Wozzariter, Penguin India (2012), ISBN 978-0143332114
• Untold Tales from The Jungle Book: Col Hathi Loses his Brigade, The Walt Disney Company (2010), ISBN 978-9380594408

• Payal Kapadia, official website
• Payal Kapadia at Goodreads
• Interviews

• "I Write In Confusion And Crisis" – Businessworld, 23 May 2012
• The Hindu 23 May 2012
• Live interview at Bookaroo 2012
• F-Page - Payal Kapadia 2015