Samanth Subramanian is an Indian writer and journalist. He studied journalism at Penn State University and international relations at Columbia University. He has written for numerous publications including the New York Times, New Yorker, New York Review of Books, New Republic, Newsweek, Aeon, Boston Globe, Caravan, Far Eastern Economic Review, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Granta, Guardian, The Hindu, Huffington Post, Intelligent Life (Economist), Mint, The National (UAE), Wall Street Journal, etc.

Samanth's first book Following Fish: Travels Around the Indian Coast was published in 2010 by Penguin India. It was praised by critics such as William Dalrymple and Ramachandra Guha, and won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize. It was also nominated for the Andre Simon Book Award. His second book This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan Civil War was nominated for the Samuel Johnson Prize. He became only the second Indian writer after Suketu Mehta to be nominated for this prestigious award for literary non-fiction.^[1]