Vinitha R on Clubhouse

Bio

Editor, Author, Poet, Content Strategist


Vinitha’s recent career history has largely been about introducing and managing transformative change in the space of education and literature. An editor and author with 20 years of experience in editing and writing, Vinitha has worked with the media as a journalist for many years, eventually moving to working with the book publishing industry.
In the media space Vinitha has experience in the diverse spectrum publishing—from print, digital content, television and book publishing—working in senior capacity at some of India’s well-known print brands from the Times of India, MidDay and Zee TV to The Week Magazine where she started her career as an editor and with The Economic and Political Weekly where she last worked as Chief Copy Editor. Currently, she currently writes a fortnightly column for Midday.
Vinitha has written over 25 books for children, two of which are part of CBSE curriculum and one, part of ISCE English Language Textbook. Her new book Ammu and the Sparrows won the Neev Literature Award, Best Children'sBook, 2021. Her previous book Sera Learns to Fly, won Best Children's Book of the Year award, 2019, while in 2020 her book Lost and Found was shortlisted for many awards. She is, at present curating a book for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2021 and her food memoir.

You can find more about her work at: http://vinithastories.com/
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