Shreekumar Varma is an Indian author, playwright, newspaper columnist and poet, known for the novels Lament of Mohini (Penguin, 2000), Maria's Room (HarperCollins, 2010) and Kipling's Daughter (AngloInk, 2018), the children's books, Devil's Garden: Tales Of Pappudom (Puffin, 2006), The Magic Store of Nu-Cham-Vu (Puffin, 2009), Pazhassi Raja: The Royal Rebel (Macmillan, 1997), and his collected plays, Five & Other Plays and Midnight Hotel & Other Plays, (collections of three plays each, both published by Adisakrit, 2019).