Lindsay Pereira

Lindsay Pereira was born and raised in Bombay. He studied at St. Xavier's College and the University of Mumbai and holds a PhD in literature for his work on gender atitudes implicit in nineteenth-century Indian fiction.

He was co-editor with the late Eunice de Souza of Women's Voices: Selections from Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Indian Writing in English. His first novel, Gods and Ends, was shortlisted for the 2021 JCB Prize for Literature and Tata Literature Live! First Book Award for Fiction. His second novel, The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao, was longlisted for the 2024 Crossword Book Award for fiction, and won the Mumbai Literature Live! Literary Award for fiction book of the year. A collection of his short stories, Songs Our Bodies Sing was published in 2025.