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Priya Kuriyan is an Indian comic book writer, illustrator and animation filmmaker, based in the city of Bengaluru, Karnataka. She is the author of the comic book Ammachi's Glass, and the author of the picture book and children's adaptation of the writer Perumal Murugan's acclaimed novel Poonachi. Kuriyan was the recipient of the Big Little Book Award at the Mumbai Literature Festival in 2019.
Kuriyan graduated from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad in 2004 and began her career as an illustrator for Tulika Books. Since then she has been the illustrator forover 100 books and collaborated with a number of writers including Ruskin Bond, Manu S. Pillai, Natasha Sharma, Meera Nair, Jerry Pinto and Radhika Chadha. She has also collaborated with the author Devapriya Roy for the graphic novel Indira (2018), based on the life of the former prime minister Indira Gandhi. As an animation filmmaker, Kuriyan directed educational animation films for the Children's Film Society, India and episodes for the Indian edition of Sesame Street (Galli Galli Sim Sim).
Books
- Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back (eds., 2015) Zubaan Books . ISBN 978-0-99-405071-7.
- Ammachi's Glasses (2017) Tulika Books . ISBN 978-93-5046-908-8.
- Poonachi: Lost in the Forest (adaptation of Perumal Murugan's Poonachi, 2020) Red Panda Westland Imprint. ISBN 978-9-38-964831-7.