Author · Storyteller · Filmmaker
Stories that cross languages.
Pawan Mishra writes fiction and non-fiction in Hindi and English — from the award-winning novel Coinman to the Prime Video series My Teacher Hilda. New work in both languages, forthcoming.
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CoinmanAward-winning debut novel
eLit Book AwardWinner, Literary Fiction 2016
My Teacher HildaSeries on Prime Video
IIT KanpurMathematics & Computing
Lune SparkFounder, Center for Creativity
The novel that started it
Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy — a satirical, absurdist tale of office politics in a small north-Indian town. Winner of the 2016 eLit Book Award for Literary Fiction and the Readers’ Favorite International Award; finalist for the NIEA Award for Humor and IAN Book of the Year.
“Originality is often elusive, yet that’s exactly what Pawan Mishra delivers.”— BookViralThe story, the praise, and where to get it →
Recent writing
The first paper is filed: it’s about two decades of writing almost no one has seen. Read The Mishra Papers →