Mamta Nainy

Mamta Nainy is a writer based in New Delhi. She has authored over thirty-five books for children, many of which have gone on to win national and international awards and recognition, 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. 

Her books have featured on the USBBY and IBBY lists. She also works as a literary translator, translating from Hindi into English, and vice versa. She is inspired by the unfettered imagination of children and loves travelling but is too lazy to do it, so she mostly makes do with reading.