Priya Kuriyan is an Indian comic book writer, illustrator and animation filmmaker,[1][2] based in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
[1][4] Since then, she has been the illustrator for over 100 books and collaborated with a number of writers including Ruskin Bond, Manu S. Pillai, Natasha Sharma, Meera Nair, Jerry Pinto and Radhika Chadha.
[6][7] As an animation filmmaker, Kuriyan directed educational animation films for the Children's Film Society, India and episodes for the Indian edition of Sesame Street (Galli Galli Sim Sim).
[8] She is the author of the comic book Ammachi's Glass,[4] and the author of the picture book and children's adaptation of the writer Perumal Murugan's acclaimed novel Poonachi.
[9][10] Kuriyan was the recipient of the Big Little Book Award at the Mumbai Literature Festival in 2019.