Bishnu N Mohapatra
Bishnu Mohapatra is an Odia poet, social theorist, educator and commentator. He is also a Professor of Politics and the Director of Moturi Satyanarayana Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at KREA University, India.
Perumal Murugan
Perumal Murugan writes in Tamil and is the author of four novels, three collections of short stories and three anthologies of poetry. His Tamil novels Koola Maathaari and Nizhal Mutram have been translated into English as Seasons of the Palm and Current Show. Seasons of the Palm was short-listed for the Kiriyama Award. He has received awards from the Tamil Nadu government as well as from Katha Books. Perumal is also interested in literary criticism, lexicography and publishing.
Nagaveni
Nagaveni is well known for her short stories and a critically acclaimed novel called Gandhi Banda (literally translated as Gandhi Arrived). This novel has also been made into a play and performed across the state. The recipient of many awards, Nagaveni works at the Kannada University in Hampi.
Mariko Nagai
Recipient of fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, UNESCO, Akademie Schloss Solitude, the Ledig House, among others and the prestigious Pushcart Prizes for both in poetry and fiction, Mariko Nagai is the author of Histories of Bodies: Poems (2007), Georgic: Stories (2010), Instructions for the Living (2012), and two fiction books forthcoming in 2014 and 2015. Mariko Nagai is an Associate Professor at Temple University Japan.
Karthika Nair
Karthika Naïr is the author of a poetry collection, Bearings (HarperCollins India). Her poems have appeared in anthologies and journals in many countries, and been translated into French and Italian. Naïr co-scripted British-Bangladeshi choreographer Akram Khan’s piece, Desh, which won the 2012 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production. Young Zubaan (India) and Editions Hélium (France) will soon be bringing out The Boy, the Bees and Bonbibi, one of the stories she wrote for Desh, as an illustrated children’s book.
Rihan Najib
Rihan Najib is a freelance writer and editor. Previously, she was with the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore. Before that, she was with the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. She was shortlisted for the Toto Award for Creative Writing in 2014.
Amaresh Nugadoni
Amaresh Nugadoni is a well-known short story writer in Kannada. He is working as Associate Professor, Department of Kannada Literature Studies, Kannada University, Hampi. Apart from collections of short stories, he as published many research works. One of his short stories was made into a National Award-winning film by Girish Kasaravalli.
Michael Obert
Michael is a renowned German book author and journalist who writes for Die Zeit, Stern, GEO, and many other prestigious German periodicals, as well for The Journal in New York. He reports mainly from Africa and Latin America. In his recent travelogue “Regenzauber” he describes traveling for seven months on Africa’s third longest river, the Niger. As a writer Obert has been compared with the likes of Bruce Chatwin. His journalistic and literary work has been honored with various awards. Obert currently lives in Berlin.
Nandini Oza
After completing post-graduation with a Masters in Social Work, Nandini worked as a political activist for over two decades in Non-Government Organisations and people’s movements like the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA). Since 2004, she has been managing the Zindabad Trust, an organization that provides financial support to environmental and human rights work across the country. As part of this, she has been recording the Oral History of the struggle around the Sardar Sarovar Project in the Narmada Valley.
Janice Pariat
Janice is based between the UK, Delhi and Shillong. Her first book Boats on Land: A Collection of Short Stories (Random House, India; October 2012) won the Young Writer Award from the Sahitya Akademi (the Indian National Academy of Letters). It was shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize, and longlisted for the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award 2013. Her work – including art reviews, cultural features, book reviews, fiction and poetry – has featured in a wide number of national magazines and newspapers. She edits Pyrta, an online literary journal of poetry, prose, photo essays and sketches.
Mohit Parikh
Mohit Parikh is author of Manan (HarperCollins). He was awarded a Toto Award for Creative Writing in 2015 and an Honorable Mention – Best Book (Fiction) at The Hindu-Goodbooks Awards in 2015-16. His works have published in many Indian and international literary journals including Griffith Review (Australia), Burrow Press Review (USA), Out of Print Magazine and The Indian Express (India).
Hyuong-Su Park (Leo / Kamal)
Hyuong-Su has received multiple grants from the Arts Council of Korea and has taught Liguistics and Creative Writing at various universities in Korea. His publications include “Dawn of the Nana” (2010), “Fiction of Midnight” (2007) which won the Arts Council of Korea award, and “Things to Know Before Raising a Rabbit (2003).
Jinhee Park
Jinhee Park actively works on convergence in performing arts theatre, both as a playwright and as a filmmaker. Her work is based on the tales and myths of Korea. She also wrote the screenplay for the film Shiva, Throw Your Life (2013) – the first South Korean film set in India.
Eduardo Quive
Eduardo Quive lives and works in Mozambique. He is the author of two poetry books, a book of short stories, co-organizer of three anthologies of short stories and co-author of a book of interviews. His work ‘Para onde foram os vivos’ was listed among Mozambique’s five best poetry books in 2022. He has also published the book of short stories ‘Mutiladas’.
Usha Rajagopalan
Usha was born in Tamil Nadu, schooled in Kerala, worked in Gujarat and now settled in Karnataka. She has had an eclectic working life before switching to creative writing full time. Her books are equally varied – a writer’s manual (Get Published, OUP, 2001), novel (Amrita, Rupa & Co. 2004), short fiction (Corpse Kesavan & Other Stories, NHM, 2008) and poetry (Selected Poems of Subramania Bharati, Hachette India, forthcoming) translated from Tamil. What’s constant, so far, are the milieu of her writing – India, and the language she writes in English.
Chiranthi Rajapakse
Chiranthi Rajapakse is a writer and lives in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her writing has been published by New Ceylon Writing, Wachana, Samyuktha fiction and Fairlight shorts, and she is part of the New Ink forum. Chiranthi has degrees in Law and Dentistry and has worked as a feature writer, legal researcher and project manager.
V Ramaswamy
V Ramaswamy lives in Calcutta, India. He is an entrepreneur, grassroots organiser, social planner, teacher, writer and translator. An economist by training, he has been working as a rights activist with labouring poor communities in Calcutta since 1984. The Golden Gandhi Statue from America, a collection of short stoies by the Bengali writer, Subimal Misra, translated by him was published in 2010.
Amit Ranjan
Amit is a doctoral candidate at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, in India. Currently, he is a visiting scholar at the University of New South Wales, courtesy of an Endeavour scholarship he has received from the Australian government. He is also an Inlaks Foundation Research Fellow for 2010. Amit writes poetry, fiction, and plays in English, and has acted in his own theatre productions. Currently, he is writing a fictional work set in 19th century about a very interesting Australian writer who lived in India in the 19th century.