Edna Fernandes - writer and Journalist on India

Author

Edna Fernandes is a British Indian journalist who was born in Nairobi and grew up in London. A former foreign correspondent for the Financial Times in New Delhi and political and international business correspondent for Reuters and Dow Jones in London, her articles have been reproduced in newspapers around the world, including the Wall Street Journal and International Herald Tribune.

Her first book Holy Warriors: A Journey into the Heart of Indian Fundamentalism was shortlisted for the UK’s Index on Censorship TR Fyvel prize and nominated for India’s Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Best Book Award. Fernandes’ new book is The Last Jews of Kerala.

She is represented by literary agent Aitken Alexander Associates in London.