Payal Kapadia (author)
# 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.

## Biography

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.

## Awards

* 2013 Crossword Book Award (Children's Literature) for Wisha Wozzariter

## Publications

### Young Readers

* 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
