Priya Kuriyan
Priya Kuriyan is an Indian comic book writer, illustrator and animation filmmaker, based in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Education
Kuriyan graduated from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad in 2004.Career
She began her career as an illustrator for Tulika Books. Since then, she has been the illustrator for over 100 books and collaborated with a number of writers including Ruskin Bond, Manu S. Pillai, Natasha Sharma, Meera Nair, Jerry Pinto and Radhika Chadha. She has also collaborated with the author Devapriya Roy for the graphic novel Indira, based on the life of the former prime minister Indira Gandhi. As an animation filmmaker, Kuriyan directed educational animation films for the Children's Film Society, India and episodes for the Indian edition of Sesame Street.She is the author of the comic book Ammachi's Glass, and the author of the picture book and children's adaptation of the writer Perumal Murugan's acclaimed novel Poonachi.