Timeri Murari

TIMERI N. MURARI is an award-winning writer, filmmaker and playwright who began his career as a journalist on the Ontario newspaper The Kingston Whig-Standard. He now writes for The Guardian (UK), The Sunday imes (UK) and other international magazines and newspapers. He has published both fiction and non-fiction and his bestselling novel Taj was translated into nineteen languages. In 2006 he published a memoir, My Temporary Son, exploring the difficulties of adopting a desperately ill orphan. Timeri lives with his wife in his ancestral home of Chennai, India.