[2] She won the 2023 Miles Franklin Award with her third novel, Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens.
[1] She studied law at the University of New South Wales, then worked as a human rights lawyer in London.
[3][4] Her first novel, Song of the Sun God, was published in Sri Lanka in January 2017 and was longlisted for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award.
[5] Charithra Chandran was given the lead role in a six-part adaptation, also named Song of the Sun God.
[7] It was a finalist[7] for the Norma K. Hemming Award for a Long Work of science fiction as an "exploration of themes of race, gender, class and sexuality in science fiction produced either in Australia or by Australian citizens".