Vauhini Vara has worked as a journalist and an editor for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and the New York Times Magazine. Her fiction has been honored by the O. Henry Prize and the Rona JaffeFoundation. Her first novel, The Immortal King Rao, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and won the Atta Galatta–Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize for fiction as well as the JK Paper–Times of India AutHER Award for best debut.
<p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; font-family: Montserrat; letter-spacing: 0.7px; background-color: rgb(255, 254, 251);">"<em>The Immortal King Rao</em> explores the limits of our own species. Somewhere between the communal experience of Dalits in rural India and the insidious rise of MNCs and AI, lies our own fate. Vara leaves you with questions and insights-and with the feeling of being trapped, along with her characters, in a world oblivious of its own mortality." - Shubhangi Swarup, author of <em>Latitudes of Longing</em></p><div><em><br></em></div>
