Samanth Subramanian

Samanth Subramanian is a New Delhi-based journalist.His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, Intelligent Life, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and several other publications. His first book, Following Fish: Travels Around the Indian Coast, won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize in 2010 and was shortlisted for the Andre Simon Award in 2013. His second book, This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War, won the Crossword Non-Fiction Prize in 2015 and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize the same year. He is a co- host of the fortnightly science podcast The Intersection.