Anita Nair is a novelist, though in the past she has been a journalist and an advertising executive. Her works include The Better Man and Lessons in Forgetting . The movie adaptation of Lessons… was a part of the Indian Panorama at IFFI 2012 and won the National Award in 2013. She has a collection of poems ( Malabar Mind ), and essays ( Goodnight & God Bless ) to her credit.
In 2006, she one of India Today’s 30 Power Women in India, and has won many awards for her contribution to the field of literature, including the JFW Award for Literary Excellence (2010), the Kerala Sahitya Akademi (2012) and the Arch of Excellence Award (2012) by the All India Achievers’ Conference, New Delhi, for Literature. For her contribution to Children's Literature, she was presented the Central Sahitya Akademi award.
Her most recent novel is Idris – Keeper of the Light .
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