Brannavan Gnanalingam is an award-winning novelist based in Pōneke of Sri Lankan-Tamil heritage. He is the author of Sprigs (winner of the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel and shortlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Foundation Prize for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards), Sodden Downstream (also shortlisted at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards), and A Briefcase, Two Pies and a Penthouse (longlisted at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards). He is also a former columnist for the Sunday-Star Times, and winner of a Qantas Media Award (as it was then known) as a film reviewer for The Lumière Reader. The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat is his eighth novel.

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