Samanth Subramanian's journalism has appeared in theNew Yorker, theNew York Times Magazine, theGuardian,Harper's andWIRED. His first book,Following Fish: Travels Around the Indian Coast, won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Andre Simon Prize. His second,This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War, won the Crossword Non Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize.