Lavanya Lakshminarayan

Lavanya Lakshminarayan is an Indian science fiction writer and game designer. Alongside her fiction she has spent more than a decade in the games industry, building worlds and narratives for titles including Zynga's FarmVille franchise and Mafia Wars. Her first book, Analog/Virtual, a mosaic novel set in a future Bangalore, was published in India in 2020 and reissued internationally as The Ten Percent Thief; it made her the first Indian woman novelist shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. She followed it with the lighter Interstellar MegaChef and its sequel Intergalactic Feast. She lives in India.

Timeline of Lavanya Lakshminarayan’s life

Works

• The Ten Percent Thief (2020)

Prizes

• The Ten Percent Thief — Arthur C. Clarke Award 2024: Shortlist