By Thushanthi Ponweera Today we’re pleased to welcome Padma Venkatraman to the WNDB blog to discuss Born Behind Bars. What did you most enjoy about writing this book? I loved spending time with the characters. Kabir and Rani are such fun kids, and Grandma Knife is just such a cool human … [Read more...] about Q&A With Padma Venkatraman, Born Behind Bars
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Why Winning the Walter Award Means the World To Padma Venkatraman
By Padma Venkatraman This year, a day before I was scheduled to fly to Washington, DC, to receive the Walter Dean Myers Award for The Bridge Home in the company of friends and family and colleagues who had supported and believed in me for the past three decades in this country, the COVID-19 … [Read more...] about Why Winning the Walter Award Means the World To Padma Venkatraman
