Archives: Authors

Tim I Gurung joined the British Gurkhas at the tender age of seventeen as his grandfathers and uncles did before him. He carried on for the next thirteen years and eventually retired in 1993 as an Army Corporal, after which he became a businessman. Before his fiftieth birthday, he made a life-changing decision and became a full-time writer and has since published twelve novels.

Venita Coelho works with words, images and paint. She is the author of seven
published books with three more scheduled for publication in 2019. She has
written an award-winning trilogy published by Hachette India. Tiger by the Tail
won a special jury mention at the Neev Awards 2018. Dead as a Dodo won
The Hindu Goodbooks award for best Children’s Fiction in 2016. Monkey See
Monkey Do was nominated for The Hindu Goodbooks award for best Children’s
fiction in 2017. Boy No. 32 published by Scholastic, was nominated for the
Neev Awards 2018. Her book of feminist ghost stories, The Washer of the Dead,
published by Zubaan/Penguin was shortlisted for The Frank O’Connor Awards.

Israeli author Eshkar Erblich-Brifman has published thirty-four books. She resides with her family on the outskirts of the Carmel Forest, surrounded by the nature that inspires the fantastic worlds of her books containing spectacular views and fascinating magical creatures. Her two flagship series, Winter Blue, Fairy-Child, and Anis, Beginner Witch, have won the hearts and ignited the imaginations of hundreds of thousands of readers, and have become essential parts of Israeli children’s and young adult literature.

R. Parthasarathy is professor emeritus of English at Skidmore College. He is the
editor and translator of The Tale of an Anklet: An Epic of South India (Columbia,
1993).

Julya Oui is an author, a screenwriter, and a playwright. She has published four short horror story collections, written numerous feature films and TV movie scripts, and a few stage plays. Her second book Here be Nightmares was longlisted in the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award 2015 and won the third prize for Popular-The Star Readers’ Choice 2016.

Rene P. Acosta has been a journalist for more than 28 years. He currently works for the Business Mirror as a
reporter covering the areas of defense and national security issues. He had reported abroad where he wrote for
a number of publications. His articles have appeared in the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and
for years, he also wrote for the website of the Asia Pacific Defense Forum, the publication of the US Pacific
Command. He was formerly the president of the Defense Press Corps of the Philippines and had attended the
US International Visitor’s Leadership Program for the theme Regional Security.

Gaur Gopal Das studied electrical engineering from the College of Engineering, Pune. After a brief stint
with Hewlett Packard, he decided to live life as a monk in an ashram in downtown Mumbai. He has remained
there for twenty-two years, learning the antiquity of ancient philosophy and the modernity of contemporary
psychology, to become a life coach to thousands in the city.

Marguerite Richards is an American writer and editor with a background in literature, translation, and magazine publishing. Focusing on world cultures, she travels to understand the nuances that separate us, with the resolve to further our understanding of each other through her work. Based in Sri Lanka, she is currently editing two memoirs by Iranian and Kuwaiti authors, and writing short fiction vignettes for an artist book about birth traditions around the globe. Read more about her at margueriterichards.com

Nathan Gardels is Cofounder of the Berggruen Institute and Editor-in-Chief of The WorldPost, a partnership with the Washington Post. He is the coauthor of Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century: A Middle Way between East and West, a Financial Times best book of 2012. His previous books include American Idol after Iraq, The Changing Global Order and At Century’s End.

Nicolas Berggruen is the Founder and Chairman of the Berggruen Institute. He is coauthor of Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century: A Middle Way between West and East and is copublisher of The WorldPost. He is also Chairman of Berggruen Holdings.