Sunetra Gupta is Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at Oxford University. She is the author of four novels: the first, Memories of Rain (1992), won the Sahitya Akademi Prize in 1997. The others are: The Glassblower's Breath (1993); Moonlight into Marzipan (1995); and A Sin of Colour (1999) which won the Southern Arts Literature Prize, 2000. It was shortlisted for the Crossword Award and was on the longlist for the Orange Prize in 2000.
