Biographie de Deepa Agarwal
Author, poet and translator, Deepa Agarwal writes for both
children and adults and has over 50 books published. A frequent
contributor to magazines and journals in India and abroad, she
has edited and compiled several anthologies as well. Among
many awards, she received the NCERT National Award for
Children's Literature in 1993 for her picture book Ashok's
New Friends, while her historical fiction Caravan to Tibet was
on the IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People)
Honour List 2008.
Her work has been translated into several
Indian and foreign languages, and five of her books have been
included in the White Raven catalogue of the International
Youth Library in Munich, Germany. Deepa has also received
fellowships from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India,
and the Austrian government to research children's literature,
and has presented papers at many seminars and conferences
both in India and abroad.
She is active in reading promotion
and is a resource person for several organizations, conducting
creative writing workshops and storytelling sessions in schools.