hOle Book: Gupshup Goes To Prison

by Arefa Tehsin

hOle Gupshup Goes To Prison

300 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2023

About the author

Arefa Tehsin is the author of 20+ books (publisher Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, National Book Trust etc), both for children and adults, and contributes columns, features and travel articles to various publications like Conde Nast Traveller, The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, The Hindu, Deccan Herald, Outlook Money and TerraGreen. The Great Indian Safari (Puffin) has been shortlisted for BTB Wordsmith of Year 2025 and the AG-BLF 2025 Book Award. The Witch on the Peepul Tree, her first novel for adults, published by HarperCollins, was “super-shortlisted” for The Asian Prize for Fiction 2023; the only book from India to be in “The Asian Trio”. Her book The Chirmi Chasers was shortlisted for Neev Book Award 2021. Amra and the Witch was shortlisted for FCCI’s Best Book of the Year Award 2019. She was shortlisted for the The Hindu Young World-Goodbooks Best Author Award 2017 for her book Wild in the Backyard. The picture book The Elephant Bird was read at 3200+ locations in India from the slums to the Presidential library on the International Literacy Day, 2016 and translated in 35+ languages. Do Tigers Drink Blood and 13 Other Mysteries of Nature is being translated in Chinese. A few schools in India and Sri Lanka have taken up her books as textbooks and supplementary readers. The fantasy book ‘Iora and the Quest of Five’ was released in the U.S. and U.K. in 2022. Daughter of the renowned naturalist Dr. Raza H. Tehsin, Arefa has spent her childhood days treading jungles with her father, exploring caves and handling snakes. She was appointed as the Honorary Wildlife Warden of Udaipur district and has pursued nature conservation through her writings and columns. Find out more on www.arefatehsin.com