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|name = Payal Kapadia<br />
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| caption = Payal Kapadia<br />
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1975}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Mumbai]], India<br />
| occupation = Writer, journalist<br />
| genre = Children's literature<br />
| alma_mater = [[Medill School of Journalism]], [[St. Xavier's College, Mumbai]]<br />
| awards = 2013 [[Crossword Book Award]] (Children's Literature)<ref name="indiatimes1">{{cite web |title='Popular choice' ruled at book awards |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Popular-choice-ruled-at-book-awards/articleshow/26984253.cms |work=[[Times of India]] |date=7 December 2013 |accessdate=7 December 2013}}</ref><br />
| website = {{URL|http://www.payalkapadia.com}}<br />
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'''Payal Kapadia''' (born 1975) is an Indian author of [[Children's books]]. She is the recipient of the 2013 [[Crossword Book Award]] (Children's Literature) for ''Wisha Wozzariter''.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Payal Kapadia was born in 1975 in Mumbai, India. She studied English literature at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai and received a M.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University in Chicago. She has worked as a journalist with [[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]] in Bombay and as an Editor with [[The Japan Times]] in Tokyo.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/payal-kapadia-2/ |title=Payal Kapadia &#124; Jaipur Literature Festival |access-date=18 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116011220/http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/payal-kapadia-2/ |archive-date=16 January 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/en/content/payal-kapadia |title=Payal Kapadia &#124; Penguin Books India |access-date=18 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140126120658/http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/en/content/payal-kapadia |archive-date=26 January 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref><br />
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==Awards==<br />
*2013 [[Crossword Book Award]] (Children's Literature) for ''Wisha Wozzariter''<ref name="indiatimes1"/><br />
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==Publications==<br />
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===Young Readers===<br />
* ''Horrid High'', Penguin India (2014), {{ISBN|978-0143333173}}<br />
* ''Puffin Lives: B. R. Ambedkar, Saviour of the Masses'', Penguin India (2014), {{ISBN|978-0143332282}} <br />
* ''Wisha Wozzariter'', Penguin India (2012), {{ISBN|978-0143332114}}<br />
* ''Untold Tales from The Jungle Book: Col Hathi Loses his Brigade'', The Walt Disney Company (2010), {{ISBN|978-9380594408}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.payalkapadia.com Payal Kapadia], official website<br />
*[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5832777.Payal_Kapadia Payal Kapadia at Goodreads]<br />
*Interviews<br />
:* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140202104717/http://www.businessworld.in/news/books/authors-corner/i-write-in-confusion-and-crisis/412823/page-1.html "I Write In Confusion And Crisis" – Businessworld, 23 May 2012]<br />
:* [http://www.thehindu.com/books/she-wished-she-was-a-writer/article3449253.ece The Hindu 23 May 2012]<br />
:* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140202095453/http://alpha.authortv.in/author/payal-kapadia Live interview at Bookaroo 2012]<br />
:* [http://plusminusnmore.rapo.in/f-pages/f-page-payal-kapadia/ F-Page - Payal Kapadia 2015]<br />
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