Karthika Nair

KarthikaNaïr was born in India, lives in Paris, and works as a dance producer and curator. She is the author ofBearings (HarperCollins India, 2009), a poetry collection; DESH: Memories, inherited, borrowed, invented (MC2, Grenoble, 2013), a dance diary; and The Honey Hunter/ Le Tigre de Miel (Young Zubaan, India/Editions Hélium, France, 2013), a children’s book illustrated by JoëlleJolivet. Nair was the principal story writer and scriptwriter of DESH, choreographer Akram Khan’s multiple-award-winning dance production. 

She is currently working on her next poetry collection, an account of the Mahabharata war in 18 voices, one of which was recently published as a digital book in the Harper21 series as Satyavati: Fault Lines (HarperCollins India, 2014).