Ashok Ferrey’s first collection of short stories, Colpetty People was shortlisted for the Gratiaen Prize, Sri Lanka’s premier literary award. It remains the top-selling book in English by a local author written in Sri Lanka till date. His second collection, The Good Little Ceylonese Girl was also shortlisted for the same prize. Serendipity, his third book, was shortlisted for […]
Radha Chakravarty has co-edited The Essential Tagore which was nominated Book of the Year (2011) by Martha Nussbaum. Her translations of Tagore include Gora, Boyhood Days, Chokher Bali, Farewell Song: Shesher Kabita, and The Land of Cards: Stories, Poems and Plays for Children. Other works in translation are Bankimchandra Chatterjee’s Kapalkundala, In the Name of
Sudeep Chakravarti is a writer of narrative non-fiction and fiction. His Red Sun: Travels in Naxalite Country was shortlisted for the Vodafone Crossword Non-fiction Award (2008). He has also published three novels, Tin Fish and its sequel, The Avenue of Kings, and Once Upon a Time in Aparanta. He has previously held top positions at
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Paro Anand is a Bal Sahitya Puraskar winner. She has written books for children, young adults and adults. She also works with children in schools and NGOs, through her program Literature in Action and holds a world record for helping over three thousand children make the world’s longest newspaper. She has been awarded for her contribution
Keya Ghosh retired early as a teacher of English for a girls’ school in the hills. Tired of confiscating trashy romance novels from the girls, ‘that did nothing for either their idea of adult relationships or their ability to write English’, she decided to take up the challenge of reinventing the chick lit novel. She
Venita Coelho has several books to her credit including, Soap! Writing and Surviving Television in India, Tiger by the Tail, and Dead as a Dodo. She has written and directed extensively for television and presided over as the vice-president of some renowned production houses of the likes of Sony Entertainment Television, Cinevistaas Pvt. Ltd, Nimbus etc. Her credits include
John Shors has worked as a newspaper reporter in America and won three state-wide awards in journalism, including Best Investigative Reporting. John’s first five novels, Beneath a Marble Sky, Beside a Burning Sea, Dragon House, The Wishing Trees, and Cross Currents, have all won multiple awards, and translated into twenty-five languages. His book: Beneath a
Gulzar is a renowned Indian poet, filmmaker, lyricist and writer. He has five collections of published poems to his credit – Jaanam, Kuch aur Nazme, Chand Pukhraj Ka, Triveni, and Autumn Moon, as well as various collections of short stories – Chauras Raat, Dhuan, Ravi Paar, Splinter and Other Stories, and Kharaashein. He has scripted
Andrew Gretes, poet and a novelist, published his first short story, My Papou in Lunarosity: A Journal of Poetry and Fiction by Contemporary Authors. He has since published two poems, Letter to My Friend, the Embalmer, and Newtonian Meditation in The Monarch Review, Subliminal Interiors, and one short story, Panning to the Right in Fiction Fix. At the University