:Zuni Chopra
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{{Infobox person
| name = Zuni Chopra
| birth_date = c. 2001 or 2002
| occupation = Author
| father = Vidhu Vinod Chopra
| mother = Anupama Chopra
| relatives = Agni Chopra (brother)
Kamna Chandra (maternal grandmother)
Vikram Chandra (maternal uncle)
Tanuja Chandra (maternal aunt)
Ramanand Sagar (paternal uncle)
}}
Zuni Chopra is an Indian author best known for her novel, The House That Spoke. She has also authored three other books. Chopra is the daughter of filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra and journalist Anupama Chopra.{{Cite web |date=4 October 2018 |title=Zuni Chopra: It's important for people of my age to find ways to tell stories |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/zuni-chopra-it-s-important-for-people-of-my-age-to-find-ways-to-tell-stories/story-GDiJRDmPoIMZl6abAPh8vM.html |access-date=2022-06-25 |website=Hindustan Times |language=en}} One of her poems titled, The Mountain Range, that talked about the exam pressure on students, was well received in the Indian media. She is set to major in creative writing at Stanford University in September 2019.{{cite news|title=I think in words, not images|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/%E2%80%98I-think-in-words-not-images%E2%80%99/article17201544.ece|access-date=16 June 2021|newspaper=The Hindu|first=R.|last=Krithika|date=6 February 2017}}{{cite news|title=Vidhu Vinod Chopra's daughter Zuni on her novel The House That Spoke|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/vidhu-vinod-chopra-s-daughter-zuni-on-her-novel-the-house-that-spoke/story-TU6xdnjfWV3MhGFgu1yVGO.html|access-date=23 May 2018|newspaper=Hindustan Times}}{{cite news|title=Vidhu Vinod Chopra's daughter Zuni Chopra pens poem on exam pressure|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/books/zuni-chopra-vidhu-vinod-chopras-daughter-pens-poem-on-exam-pressure-4540306/|access-date=23 May 2018|newspaper=The Indian Express}}{{cite news|title=Meet the 15-year-old author of a new book on Kashmir|url=https://www.vogue.in/content/meet-15-year-old-author-new-book-kashmir/#s-cust0|access-date=23 May 2018|newspaper=Vogue}}{{cite web|title=Zuni Chopra talks about 'The House That Spoke' to BBC World News| date=8 March 2017 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aAGJ_QhuYU|access-date=23 May 2018|publisher=Penguin India}} Zuni was shortlisted for Young Author Awards 2018.{{cite news|title=Meet the 15-year-old author of a new book on Kashmir|url=https://gulfnews.com/xpress/news/10-make-it-to-young-author-awards-shortlist-1.2132689|access-date=23 May 2018|newspaper=Gulf News}}
Writing
Chopra's first book of poetry The Land of Dreams, was published by Ameya Prakashan in 2011. Her second book of poetry, Painting with Words, was published by Ameya Prakashan in 2014.{{Cite web |title=All Books |url=https://www.zunichopra.in/books |access-date=2022-06-25 |website=Zuni Chopra |language=en-US}} Both books are dedicated to her family.
Chopra's debut novel,The House That Spoke, was published in 2017 by Penguin Random House India when Chopra was 15. It is dedicated to three of her friends. The book was originally set in London, but after struggling to "breathe life" into the story, she relocated it to Kashmir.
Her second book, The Island of the Day Before, a collection of stories, flash fiction, and poetry, was published in 2018.
References
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External links
[https://www.instagram.com/zunichopra/?ig_rid=55607350-a331-4288-a6e2-622a16fd1754 https://www.instagram.com/zunichopra/]
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Category:21st-century Indian novelists
Category:21st-century Indian women writers
Category:21st-century Indian writers
Category:English-language writers from India
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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