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<div>{{short description|Indian author of books}}<br />
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{{Infobox writer<br />
| name = Paro Anand<br />
| image = Paro anand.jpg<br />
| caption = Anand at a Talking Books event in 2019<br />
| occupation = Novelist<br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
| genre = [[Children's literature]], [[Young adult literature|young adult]]<br />
| awards = [[Sahitya Akademi]] Bal Sahitya Puraskar<br />
| website = {{URL|paroanand.com}}<br />
}}<br />
'''Paro Anand''' is an Indian author of books for [[Children's literature|children]], [[Young adult literature|young adults]] and adults including novels, short stories and plays. She won the [[Sahitya Akademi]] Bal Sahitya Puruskar in 2017<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/awards/bal%20sahitya%20samman_suchi.jsp|title=..:: SAHITYA Akademi - Bal Sahitya Puraskar ::..|website=sahitya-akademi.gov.in|access-date=2019-07-21}}</ref> for her anthology ''Wild Child and Other Stories (''now published as ''"Like Smoke: 20 Teens 20 Stories")''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://penguin.co.in/thepenguindigest/what-the-readers-had-to-say-about-the-award-winning-book-wild-child-and-other-stories/|title=What the Readers Had to Say About the Award-Winning Book 'Wild Child and Other Stories'|date=2017-09-06|website=The Penguin Digest|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-05}}</ref> She has spoken about and written extensively on children's literature in India.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.in/murtaza-ali-khan/writer-paro-anand-on-young-adults-children-in-kashmir-and-putting-sex-in-her-books_a_23229261/|title=Writer Paro Anand On Young Adults, Children In Kashmir, And Putting Sex In Her Books|date=2017-10-02|website=HuffPost India|language=en|access-date=2019-07-21}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/i-was-and-remain-an-excellent-liar/article19325723.ece|title=I was and remain an excellent liar: Paro Anand|last=Krithika|first=R.|date=2017-07-22|work=The Hindu|access-date=2019-07-21|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> She headed the National Centre for Children's Literature at the [[National Book Trust|National Book Trust India]], the apex body for [[children's literature]] in India. She also runs a podcast on HubHopper called ''Literature in Action,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hubhopper.com/podcast/literature-in-action/9237#Intent;scheme=https;package=android.intent.action.VIEW;end;|title=Literature in action {{!}} Listen via hubhopper|website=hubhopper.com|language=en|access-date=2019-07-21}}</ref>'' and was an invitee to the India Conference at the [[Harvard Business School]] in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://m.dailyhunt.in/news/india/english/orissa+diary-epaper-oridia/author+paro+anand+at+india+conference+at+harvard+business+school+and+harvard+kennedy+school-newsid-81697264|title=Author Paro Anand at India Conference at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School - Orissa Diary|website=Dailyhunt|language=en|access-date=2019-08-05}}</ref><br />
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== Writing ==<br />
In an interview with ''[[The Hindu]]'', Anand said that she was working as a drama teacher when she realized that there were not many Indian works for Indian students to adapt. "There were only very archaic or Western scripts for performance. I couldn’t find the kind of plays I wanted to do with today's Indian children, so I started writing them and then found there weren’t many storybooks that fitted my brief either. So I started writing those."<ref name=":0" /><br />
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Anand's writing covers topics such as communal hatred, failure, sexual abuse and being different, and is often intended for a young audience.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/even-now-you-get-panchantatra-when-you-ask-for-indian-children-s-literature/story-lNg4LZiTTDOtNqdtMLSXqM.html|title='You still get Panchatantra when you ask for Indian kids' literature'|date=2016-03-28|website=Hindustan Times|language=en|access-date=2019-07-29}}</ref><br />
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== Translations ==<br />
Anand's book ''No Guns at My Son's Funeral'' made it to the [[International Board on Books for Young People|IBBY]] Honors List of 2006<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ibby.org/subnavigation/archives/ibby-honour-list/2006/|title=2006: IBBY official website|website=www.ibby.org|access-date=2019-07-28}}</ref> and has been translated into Spanish and German.<br />
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== Awards and recognitions ==<br />
Anand won the [[Sahitya Akademi|National Sahitya Akademi]] Bal Sahitya Puraskar in 2017 for her collection of short stories, ''Wild Child and Other Stories (now published as "Like Smoke: 20 Teens 20 Stories")''.<ref name=":1" /> In 2019, she was conferred the [[Kalinga (historical region)|Kalinga]] [[Karuvaki|Karubaki]] Award of the Kalinga Literary Festival.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://orissadiary.com/pavan-k-verma-rajendra-kishore-panda-paro-anand-conferred-prestigious-kalinga-literary-awards-2019/|title=Pavan K. Verma, Rajendra Kishore Panda, Paro Anand to be conferred with Prestigious Kalinga Literary Awards of 2019|last=bureau|first=Odisha Diary|date=2019-07-17|website=OdishaDiary|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-29}}</ref><br />
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