Kiran Manral

Kiran Manral is a writer, author and novelist based in Mumbai. Her fiction titles include The Reluctant Detective, Once Upon a Crush, All Aboard!, Saving Maya, Missing: Presumed Dead, The Face at the Window, All Those Who Wander, The Kitty Party Murder and More Things in Heaven and Earth. In the non-fiction category her works include Karmic Kids, True Love Stories, A Boy’s Guide to Growing Up, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Parenting, Raising Kids with Hope and Wonder in Times of a Pandemic and Rising: 30 Women Who Changed India. She is a TEDx speaker and was a mentor with Vital Voices Global Mentoring Walk 2017. In previous avatars, she has been a journalist, researcher, festival curator and entrepreneur. She has received multiple awards, such as the Women Achievers Award by Young Environmentalists in 2013 and the International Women’s Day Award 2018 from the Indian Council of UN Relations supported by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India (GoI), for excellence in the field of writing. In 2022, she was named among the '75 Iconic Indian Women' in STEAM by the Red Dot Foundation and Beyond Black, in collaboration with the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor, GoI and British High Commission, New Delhi.