Krishna Udayasankar is a Singapore-based Indian author, known for her modern retelling of

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through the novel cycle, ''The Aryavarta Chronicles'' (''Govinda'', ''Kaurava'' and ''Kurukshetra''). She is also the author of ''Immortal'', ''3'' - a novel on the founding of Singapore - and ''Objects of Affection'' – a book of prose-poems.

Personal life and education

A graduate of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore, Krishna holds a PhD in Strategic Management from the

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, Singapore and has published two textbooks: ''International Business: An Asian Perspective'' (2015) and ''Global Business Today'' (2014). Her book ''Beast'' (2019), an urban fantasy thriller is published by

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, who have also taken over the rights for her entire backlist of five novels. In a session at the Bangalore Literary Festival in 2018, Udayasankar spoke of how she started writing fiction entirely by accident, and that her first work, ''The Aryavarta Chronicles'', started out as a satirical poem. Krishna lives in Singapore with her family.

Books

*''Govinda'' (novel) (Hachette India, 2012) *''Objects of Affection'' (poetry anthology) (Math Paper Press, 2013) *''Body Boundaries: The Etiquette Anthology of Women's Writing'' (non-fiction) (The Literary Centre,2013) *''Kaurava'' (novel) (Hachette India, 2013) *''Kurukshetra'' (novel) (Hachette India, 2014) * ''3'' (novel) (Hachette, 2015) * ''Immortal'' (Hachette India, 2016) * ''Beast'' (Penguin India, 2019) * ''Buddha'' (Penguin India, TBA)- Forthcoming * ''The Cowherd Prince''

References

External links

The Aryavarta Chronicles

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