Shobhaa Dé is a bestselling author and a popular social commentator. She is the author of numerous books, her most recent one Insatiable being an irreverent memoir about the year leading up to her seventy-fifth birthday. Her works, both fiction and non-fiction, have been featured in comparative literature courses at universities in India and abroad. Her writing has been translated into many languages including Hindi, Marathi, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish, among others.