Karthika Naïr is a poet, playwright, fabulist and dance scenarist. Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata, her reworking of the foundational South Asian epic in multiple voices, won the 2015 Tata Literature Live Award for Book of the Year (India). Les Oiseaux électriques de Pothakudi - her latest children's book illustrated by Joëlle Jolivet - won the 2023 Prix Felipé for "ecological children's literature", and was shortlisted for the 2023 Prix Franco-Allemand de la littérature de jeunesse. The dance performances she has scripted and co-scripted include Akram Khan's multiple-award-winning DESH and Carlos Pons Guerra's
