title: Payal Kapadia (author)
text: # Payal Kapadia (author)
  
  Payal Kapadia is an Indian author of Children's books. She is the recipient of the 2013 Crossword Book Award (Children's Literature) for Wisha Wozzariter.
  
  ## Biography
  
  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 in Bombay and as an Editor with The Japan Times in Tokyo.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * 2013 Crossword Book Award (Children's Literature) for Wisha Wozzariter
  
  ## Publications
  
  ### Young Readers
  
  * Horrid High, Penguin India (2014), ISBN 978-0143333173
  * Puffin Lives: B. R. Ambedkar, Saviour of the Masses, Penguin India (2014), ISBN 978-0143332282
  * Wisha Wozzariter, Penguin India (2012), ISBN 978-0143332114
  * Untold Tales from The Jungle Book: Col Hathi Loses his Brigade, The Walt Disney Company (2010), ISBN 978-9380594408
  