Shankari Chandran is an Australian Tamil lawyer and the author of Safe Haven (2024), Unfinished Business (2024), Song of the Sun God (2022), Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (2022) and The Barrier (2017).
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens won the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2023. Song of the Sun God was long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award and short-listed for Sri Lanka’s Fairway National Literary Award. Her short stories have been published in the Sweatshop anthologies, Another Australia and Sweatshop Women (Vol 2).
Shankari is the deputy chair of Writing NSW. Song of the Sun God is being adapted for television with Photoplay, Synchronicity Films (UK) and Cineflix.
She is the deputy chair of Writing NSW and lives in Sydney with her husband and four children.
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