Sharanya Manivannan
Sharanya Manivannan is an Indian author, columnist and poet.
Early life
Manivannan was born in India. She lived in Sri Lanka, Malaysia and from 2007 she is residing in Chennai, India. She received the Lavanya Sankaran Fellowship for 2008–2009. She writes a column, the 'Venus Flytrap' in the New Indian Express.Her 2018 book The Queen of Jasmine County is a fictionalised account of the 9th century Tamil Hindu poet Andal. She combined prose with poetry in her lyrical novel where she imagines a young Kodhai transforming into poet goddess Andal.