Mishi Saran

Mishi Saran’s first novel, The Other Side of Light, (HarperCollins India, 2012) was shortlisted for the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize. Her first book, a travelogue, Chasing the Monk’s Shadow: A Journey in the Footsteps of Xuanzang, (Penguin, 2005) was shortlisted for the 2006 Hutch Crossword Book Award and long-listed for the Lettres Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage. Her journalism has appeared in international media like the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, South China Morning Post Her essays have appeared in LARB and Quartz. She is working on a novel set in 1930s’ Shanghai. Saran was born in India and has lived in six other countries. She majored in Chinese Studies at Wellesley College and moved back to Hong Kong in 2014 after eight years in Shanghai.