Shubhangi Swarup is an author, journalist, and educator. Breiten des Verlangens (Latitudes of Longing), her first novel, is an international bestseller and has been translated into 15 languages. It won the Sushila Devi Award and the Tata Literature Live! Award for debut novels and was shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Indian Literature. Shubhangi Swarup was awarded the Charles Pick Scholarship for Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She lives in Goa, India, where she looks out over a rapidly changing seascape from her desk.