Sharanya Manivannan

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Sharanya Manivannan was born in India in 1985 and grew up in Sri Lanka and Malaysia. A writer, dancer, painter, actress, photographer, journalist and activist, she is working on her first novel and a collection of poems. She lives in Kuala Lumpur. She recently released a self-published chapbook of poems, Iyari. She is well-known in Malaysia for her unique bilingual (English, Tamil) writing and performances. She is well-known as the first and only writer to use both languages in their modern underground independent writers' community. She is critically acclaimed for her writing, garnering fans among international writers such as Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Indran Amirthanayagam, Francesca Beard and Shreekumar Varma. She is also a blogger, and partly responsible for raising international awareness through her blog on temple demolitions in Malaysia.

Source: Sharanya Manivannan's blog