Sutapa Basu is a best-selling, award-winning author as well as an educationist, poet, storyteller, and a translator. Her historical novel, The Curse of Nader Shah won the Best Fiction Award by Author Awards, 2019 instituted by JK Papers and The Times of India. She is the 2016 First Prize winner of The Times of India’s Write India Campaign for Amish Tripathi while her debut, a psychological thriller, Dangle was nominated for the Anupam Kher Award for Best Debut English Novel in 2017. In 2021, she received an award for Excellence in Publishing by the Public Diplomacy Forum.
She is well-known for her best-selling historical fiction, Padmavati, The Queen Tells Her Own Story (2017). Her second historical fiction initiated the Invader Series with The Legend of Genghis Khan (2018) and continued with The Curse of Nader Shah (2019). Recently, her two anthologies, Out Of The Blue, Stories with a Twist and The Anatomy of Affection, Tales That Touch You (2020) have been released. She published a cozy-mystery for young readers, The Cursed Inheritance (2021) as well as an English translation of the iconic Thakurmar Jhuli titled Princesses, Monsters and Magical Creatures (2021). A non-fiction for young readers, The Birth of My Nation was released in 2022. This book has been prescribed as a supplementary reader in several schools. Her latest and 10th book, launched in 2023, is Parvati Bai, The Forgotten Witness of the Battle of Panipat. In June, 2024 her next mystery book, Murder In The Jungle for young adults was Released.
Sutapa’s short stories have appeared in anthologies and many educational series at the K-12 levels by her are being prescribed in schools in India and abroad. During her 25-year publishing career with Oxford University Press, Encyclopedia Britannica and Ephesus Learning, she has produced over 600 books. Sutapa speaks on her own podcast called The Sutapa Basu Show and manages Sutapa’s Studio that trains school faculty and creative writing aspirants. She also runs a live chat show Bistro Buzz Conversations with Sutapa Basu that hosts unique people from across spheres and the world.
