Brannavan Gnanalingam is a novelist and lawyer based in Wellington. He’s the author of the Ngaio Marsh Award winning Sprigs (2020), and Sodden Downstream (2017), both also shortlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Foundation Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. His A Briefcase, Two Pies and a Penthouse was also longlisted for the same award in 2016. His latest and ninth novel, U.X.O. is being released in September 2026.