Saudha Kasim
Saudha Kasim started out studying architecture in college, gave that up for graphic design before moving to a career in corporate communications. Along the way, she published short stories in various online journals. She wrote a starter novel that remains unpublished and is now working on her second, which she hopes will see the light of day soon. She lives in Bangalore, India.
Simar Preet Kaur
Simar Preet Kaur has worked as the editor of the airline magazine, JetWings. Her writing has appeared in a diverse range of publications, including National Geographic Traveler, COLORS, Rolling Stone and Papercuts. She is now working on her first book – a fiction set in the Himalayas.
Manav Kaul
Manav writes in Hindi and founded the theatre group Aranya in 2004. He has written and directed several plays, including Shakkar ke Paanch Daane (translated into English as Five Grains of Sugar), Peele Scooterwala Aadmi, Bali Aur Shambhu, Ilhaam, Aisa Kehte Hain, Shabd Sangeet and Park (also translated into English under the same name). He has also adapted and directed Sartre’s No Exit into Hindi as Antaheen as well as Vijay Tendulkar’s Ashi Pakhare Yeti into Kannada. He is currently directing a play called Red Sparrow.
Panagiotis Kechagias
Panagiotis was born in Athens and studied Psychology at the University of Crete and at Panteion University. His reviews, articles, and photography regularly appear in magazines and newspapers. In 2016, Antipodes will publish his debut in Greek, a short story collection, Final Warning. He is the co-founder of independent English-language micropress Pilotless Press, which publishes original fiction by Greek authors writing in English.
Birgit Kempker
Birgit Kempker lives in Basel, she teaches there and someplace else between word, picture, sound, space, idea, conception, writing in the art, writing for the art and as art. Research. Prose. Essay. Retranslation. Radio play. Theatre. Radio Installation. Performance. Net. Songs. Sounds. Tabooanimals. Collaboration and sphinx.
Anne-Marie Kenessey
Anne-Marie Kenessey is a Swiss poet based in Zurich. Her poems have been published in literary magazines and anthologies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Her first book, the poetry collection Im Fossil versteckt sich das Seepferd vor dir, received the award of the Canton of Zurich in July 2012. She won the Munich poetry prize in December 2012 with a selection of new poems.
Taran Khan
Taran N Khan is a journalist and writer who grew up in Aligarh and is currently based in Mumbai. Her work has appeared in publications in India and abroad. She has been traveling to and writing from Kabul since 2006, where she works closely with Afghan filmmakers and media professionals. She is the co-founder of Jalebi Ink, a media space for young people.
Yi Jeong Kim
Yi Jeong-Kim was born in 1960. She studied Philosophy at University and Literature at Graduate School. She debuted in 1994 with a short story in the Munhwa daily newspaper. She wrote a novel every day in Maeil, an economic newspaper from 1997 to 1998. She has two short story collections and two novels to her credit. Mutter on the Road (1997) and her second novel The Desert in the Water was published in 2002. She published a short story collection titled Thief Crab in 2006. Her fourth book, also a collection of short stories, titled The Room Belongs to Him was published in 2010. Yi Jeong will publish another novel this year and she currently teaches writing at university. Yi Jeong-Kim is a member of ‘Korean Artists for India’, a collective set up in 2006 comprising artists, writers and thinkers who are interested in and inspired by India.
Christopher Kloeble
Christopher plays have been staged in major theatres in Germany and Austria. His first novel, Amongst Loners, won the Juergen Ponto-Stiftung prize for Best Debut in 2008. A Knock at the Door, was published 2009 and Almost Everything Very Fast appeared in March 2012. His first movie script, Inclusion, was produced in 2011.
N S Koenings
N.S. is a fiction-writer and visual artist. Her novel, The Blue Taxi, was published in 2006 by Little, Brown and Company, followed by her short story collection, Theft, in 2008. Holder of a Dutch passport, she was born in Belgium and grew up in East Africa and Europe, Spends most of her time thinking about money, love, empire, the nature of evil, and the concept of ‘the nation,’ she is currently working on two projects in prose and experimenting with the graphic novel form.
Mridula Koshy
Mridula Koshy’s novel Not Only the Things That Have Happened (HarperCollins India) was shortlisted for the 2013 Crossword Book Award. Her short story collection, If It Is Sweet (Tranquebar Press and Brass Monkey Australia) won the 2009 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and was shortlisted for the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Award. Koshy lives in New Delhi with her poet-schoolteacher partner and three exceptionally wonderful children.
Rita Kothari
Rita is a Professor of Humanities and Translation Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar in India. She is a reputed theorist and practitioner of translation with numerous books and awards to her credit. She has also done extensive work on borders, partition and language politics in India. Her notable monographs include Burden of Refuge: Partition, Sindh, Gujarat; Memories and Movements: Borders and Communities in Banni, Kutch, Gujarat; and Translating India: The Cultural Politics of India Kothari. She has translated The Stepchild by Gujarati Angaliyat, the first Dalit novel, as well as poetry and short stories from Sindhi and Gujarati. She is currently editing A Multilingual Nation: Translation and Language Dynamics in India (forthcoming, Oxford University Press) and translating Agnipariksha, a memoir based on riots of 1969 in Ahmedabad.
Ajay Krishnan
Ajay Krishnan is a writer based in Mumbai who writes in English. He has written and/or directed five plays, some of which have been performed across India. In 2008 his play titled Hair traveled to the UK for a show in Liverpool as part of the Contacting the World youth theatre festival. He is now working on animation screenplays, shorter commissioned plays and short fiction.
Anandh Krishna
Anandh Krishna is a consulting psychotherapist based in Chennai. He write in Tamil and has three volumes of poetry, two volumes of essays, a novel and a collection of short stories to his credit. He has also translated three European novels into Tamil.
Nakul Krishna
Nakul Krishna’s writing has appeared in Caravan, Pratilipi, the Indian Express, n+1 and other publications. He is working on an academic monograph about Socrates and an intellectual history of mid-20th-century Mysore.
Sudeep KS
Sudeep was born in year 1976, in Thrissur, Kerala, India. He did his masters at IIT Bombay and worked for a software company in Bangalore for some time before going back to Bombay for his doctoral research. He started writing in English during this time, and he has been active on the blog space. After completing his PhD in early 2006, he lived in Kerala, Chennai, Hyderabad, Guwahati and Delhi and came back to Kerala in 2010, where he now teaches at an engineering college (NIT Calicut). His current blog sudeep’s diary (sudeepsdiary.blogspot.com) came to existence when he was in Chennai, in August 2006. He has been writing on media, films, politics, women and caste among other things. He is one of the contributors at “Insight young voices” (blog.insightyv.com), a dalit youth magazine.
G. Kuppuswamy
Born in 1960, G. Kuppuswamy is a well known Tamil literary translator. He translates from English to Tamil. Since 2002, he has translated several significant contemporary novels and short stories, including the work of Arundhati Roy, John Banville and Orhan Pamuk.
V Sanjay Kumar
Sanjay writes on art for various magazines and art catalogs for exhibitions. His first book, a novel, Artist, Undone, was published by Hachette India in 2012.