Megha Majumdar

Megha Majumdar is an Indian novelist born in Kolkata and based in New York City. She is known for her debut novel 'A Burning,' a New York Times bestseller that won the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar award in 2021 and the Whiting Award in 2022. Her second novel, 'A Guardian and a Thief,' was shortlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction and is an Oprah's Book Club pick.