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Padmini B Sankar

Padmini Sankar, Dubai-based author of novels and short stories, blends crime, history & fantasy. Her works have been adapted for screen.
on Oct 04, 2025

Padmini Sankar writes both novels and short stories. Padmini's stories have been shortlisted in international competitions, with a crime story published in the CWA Arabian Noir anthology, and a historical story published in the Dorothy Dunnett HWA anthology. The screen rights of her debut novel, The Mother of all Parties, (published by Black Ink, an imprint of HarperCollinsIn, 2020), as well as a short story, have been acquired by a book-to-screen agency.Her latest novel, a middle-grade fantasy, was published by Om Books International in March 2025.

Apart from writing, Padmini enjoys reading, cooking (she claims to make the best gunpowder masala in town), and travelling. She lives in Dubai with her husband.