title: C.G. Salamander
text: # C.G. Salamander
  
  C.G. Salamander is a writer, editor and comic journalist. He has been published by publishers such as Penguin Books, Scholastic India and Pratham Books. Some of the books written by him are Moodunnit, Puu, Yamini and the 7 PM Ghosts, Frank Goes to the Market. and City of Rubble
  
  ## Early life
  
  C.G. Salamander is the pen-name of Andrew Prashanth who grew up in Chennai, India. He worked as a tour guide to save enough money to publish his first book, Palms Foster Home for Peculiar Stories, which he self published at age 24.
  
  ## Awards and recognition
  
  C G Salamander had received several grants and awards for his writing. Some of them include:
  
  * Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Prize (December, 2022)
  * Gender Bender Grant, Sandbox Collective and the Goethe Institute (September, 2020)
  * India Foundation for Arts IFA 25x25 Grant (September, 2020)
  * Oxford Bookstore, Book Cover Prize, Shortlist (January, 2020)
  * Manipal Book Completion Fellowship (March, 2018)
  * Children Understand More, Goethe Institute (December, 2016)
  