Mamta Nainy is a writer based in New Delhi. She has authored over thirty-five books for
children, many of which have won national and international awards, including Neev Book
Award 2025, Valley of Words Awards 2022, FICCI Publishing Awards 2022, Publishing Next
Award 2022, The Hindu Young World-Goodbooks Award 2019 and Peek-a-Book Children’s
Choice Award 2019. She also works as a literary translator, translating between Hindi and
English. She is inspired by the boundless imagination of children and loves to travel but is
often too lazy to do so, so she mostly makes do with reading.