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Priya Kuriyan is an Indian comic book writer, illustrator and animation filmmaker,[1][2] based in Bengaluru, Karnataka.[2][3] She is the author of the comic book Ammachi's Glass,[4] and the author of the picture book and children's adaptation of the writer Perumal Murugan's acclaimed novel Poonachi.[5][6] Kuriyan was the recipient of the Big Little Book Award at the Mumbai Literature Festival in 2019.[7][8]
Kuriyan graduated from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad in 2004 and began her career as an illustrator for Tulika Books.[1][4] Since then she has been the illustrator for over 100 books and collaborated with a number of writers including Ruskin Bond, Manu S. Pillai, Natasha Sharma, Meera Nair, Jerry Pinto and Radhika Chadha.[4][7] She has also collaborated with the author Devapriya Roy for the graphic novel Indira (2018), based on the life of the former prime minister Indira Gandhi.[9][10] As an animation filmmaker, Kuriyan directed educational animation films for the Children's Film Society, India and episodes for the Indian edition of Sesame Street (Galli Galli Sim Sim).[11]
Books
- Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back (eds., 2015) Zubaan Books . .
- Ammachi's Glasses (2017) Tulika Books . .
- Poonachi: Lost in the Forest (adaptation of Perumal Murugan's Poonachi, 2020) Red Panda Westland Imprint. .