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                Santhini Govindan
 is a widely published, award-winning author of children’s literature
     in English. She has written more than 50 books for children, including poetry, picture books, 
     and short  stories for children of all ages. Her publishers include the National Book Trust
     (India), Children’s Book, Trust, Harper Collins India, Scholastic India, India Book 
House,
     Pushtak Mahal, 
Vikas Publishing House, and Publications Division, Ministry of  Information 
     and Broadcasting, (Govt. of India), among others.  Her books have been translated into many
     Indian languages and she written more than 300 stories and features for children that have
     appeared in children’s magazines and national dailies in India and overseas.

           She was awarded a two-year  Junior Fellowship in Literature from the Ministry of Human
     Resource Development, Department of 
Culture, Government of India in 1996, to write historical 
     fiction for children in the short story form. 
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           In 1998, she was awarded a two-year Senior Fellowship in Literature by the Department of     
     Culture, Govt. of India, for a research project on ‘Children’s Literature in English in India.’
 
​     In July 2001, she was the first Indian writer to be invited to attend the annual Highlights         
      Foundation Writers Workshop, held at Chautauqua, New York in the United States. ‘
     'Highlights for Children’, published from the USA, is the largest selling children's magazine in
      the world with a circulation of 3 million worldwide. 
               Many of Santhini Govindan’s books are now used as readers at schools across India.  She
      wrote two columns in the well-known monthly children’s magazine 'Chandamama' on
      historical fiction and mythology for two years till the magazine ceased publication in 2013.
      She has conducted workshops for children at schools across Mumbai, and has taught creative
      writing at the under- graduate level at Mumbai University.


                                          
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      • A Quick Read
      • Poetry
      • Shape Poems
      • WORDPLAY - Poetry writing series in RobinAge
      • Mythology
    • Historical Fiction
    • Short Stories
    • Retold Stories
    • Picture Books
    • Anthologies
    • Stories online
    • FOLK TALES
    • CHAPTER BOOKS
    • Academic Books
  • Home
  • Punch Needle Embroidery
  • Painting with Threads
    • Blog
  • Hopping Treasures
  • New
  • For Educators
  • Workshops
  • FROM THE PAGES OF CHANDAMAMA MAGAZINE
  • Elsewhere Online
    • Contact >
      • Letters to the Author