About the Author

'Easterine Kire' is a poet, novelist, short-story writer and writer of children's books. Her first novel, 'A Naga Village Remembered', was also the first Naga novel to be published in English. Her other novels include 'Bitter Wormwood' (shortlisted for the Hindu Prize 2013) and 'When the River Sleeps' (winner of the Hindu Prize 2015). Easterine Kire's work has been translated into German, Croatian, Uzbek, Norwegian and Nepali. In 2011 she was awarded the governor's medal for excellence in Naga literature.