Krupa Ge is a writer from Madras. She is the author of a novel, What We Know about Her (Context, 2021) and a narrative non-fiction book, Rivers Remember (Context, 2019).
Her reportage and cultural writings have appeared in Indian and international publications over the last 13 years.
Her debut novel What We Know about Her was long listed for The JCB Prize for Literature 2021. Krupa received a Laadli Award for her column on women in cinema, Ms. Representation in The New Indian Express for the year 2017. She’s currently dabbling in screenwriting.
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“Since childhood, reading was passion. One of the old libraries where my brother was a member used to bring a book which I used to read. This reading and listening is also a great form of observation where we collect many ideas and a lot we can learn. While writing the book, I used fictional eating this and that. Some reviewer points out this on social media, and yes, they are right. Indeed there's a lot of food. Whenever I read a book, there is a mention of the variety of food. I took inspiration from these readings and used the same method. For me, the joy of writing is to respond to something I have read. Reading is an important part of writing off course. I found out that my childhood photos were missing in the floods of 2015. This loss is not big in comparing who lost their houses. I used my pain to understand others pain. While in journalism, I read many books where I thought about how could we empathize with book characters and create my own.”