Khyrunnisa A.
Khyrunnisa A., a prize-winning author of children’s fiction, created the popular comic character Butterfingers for the children’s magazine, Tinkle. Her Butterfingers stories are a regular feature of that magazine. Her first children’s novel, Howzzat Butterfingers!, was published by Puffin in 2010. Her stories appear regularly in Tinkle, Dimdima and other children’s magazines and she freelances for other publications too. A book of short stories, Lost in Ooty and Other Adventure Stories, was published by Unisun Publications in 2010. Some of her other stories have been published in various anthologies by Puffin, Children’s Book Trust and Unisun Publications.
She worked as Associate Professor of English at All Saints’ College, Trivandrum, and is now a full-time writer. You can reach her at khyrubutter@yahoo.com.
(Courtesy: http://www.penguinbooksindia.com )
Ms Khyrunnisa will interact with the students of Kendriya Vidyalaya Pattom on 14th February at 10.30 a.m. in the Library, as part of the “Meet the Author” programme to be organized by the Reader’s Club.
Read an interview with Ms khyrunnisa A., here.
Review on ‘Howzzat Butter Fingers”
Amar Vijaykumar (second from left) and his friends at the lauch of the book Goal Butterfingers in Thiruvananthapuram
Filed under: Author of the week, Goal butterfingers, Howzzat Butterfingers, Khyrunnisa A.
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