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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, chapter 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.

     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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  • About
    • Publications I've Written For
    • Family and Friends
    • Awards and Honours
  • Published Works
    • Published Features & Articles >
      • A Quick Read
      • Poetry
      • Shape Poems
      • WORDPLAY - Poetry writing series in RobinAge
      • Mythology
    • Historical Fiction
    • Short Stories
    • Retold Stories
    • Picture Books >
      • Stories online
    • Anthologies
    • 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
  • CHILDRENS DIGEST