Brannavan Gnanalingam is a novelist and lawyer based in Wellington. He has written six novels, including Sprigs which was released in 2020. His fifth novel Sodden Downstream was shortlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the 2018 Ockham Book Awards and his fourth, A Briefcase, Two Pies and a Penthouse was longlisted in 2017.
