Shilpa Kamble

Shilpa Kamble is an author, playwright and screenwriter based in Mumbai. She writes in Marathi, Hindi, and English. Her first award-winning novel “Nilya Dolyanchi Mulg”’ (“Girl with Blue Eyes”, 2014) is a story of friendship between two girls, one of whom has discovered Ambedkar, and the other has not. Her first play “Biryani” (2016), is a socio-political drama about the lives of two women, Sakina and Kurmuri. Abstract Theater (Pune) and Emperical Theater (Kalyan) have performed it across Maharashtra. The play was nominated for Zee Marathi Puraskar and received State Rajya Natya Puraskar (Maharashtra) in 2018. She has also written a One-Act play – “Chitrangada” (2018), based on a folktale from Mahabharata.