Shankari Chandran

Shankari Chandran is an Australian Tamil lawyer and author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, Song of the Sun God, The Barrier, Safe Haven and Unfinished Business. Her fiction explores dispossession and the creation of community, and in 2023 she won the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2023 for Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. Shankari has spent over two decades working as a lawyer in the social justice field, on national and international program design. She is based in Sydney, Australia, where she lives with her husband and children.