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.
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.
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.
Pim Lammers
Pim Lammers writes for both children and adults. His books have been translated into several languages, including Spanish, French, and Japanese. He also works as a translator and literary critic.
Line-Maria Lång
Line-Maria Lång is half Swedish-half Danish and lives in Copenhagen. Her debut story collection Rat King appeared in 2009 from the distinguished Danish publishing house, Rosinante. English translations from her debut collection have appeared in the American literary journals, The Southern Review, The Literary Review, Absinthe: New European Writing and Serving House Journal. In 2011 Line-Maria Lång was the muse of the American anthology, The Girl with Red Hair. Her first novel Artichoke Heart will be published in 2014.
K. Latha
(Tamil: Poetry, Fiction) Latha has three collections of poetry in Tamil and two short story collections. She is the recipient of several literary awards in Singapore and her poems and short stories are widely published. Latha is one of the founding directors for Poetry Festival Singapore. She is currently the Associate Editor of Tamil Murasu, Singapore’s Tamil daily newspaper.
Mira Beckstrøm Laurantzon
Mira B. Laurantzon grew up between the ocean and the forest at a peninsula in the Oslo fjord of Norway. She graduated with a masters in South Asian Studies from University of Oslo, before moving to the mountains to study at the Writers Academy. She has now returned to the peninsula from which she came and in a little house in the oak forest she is continuously exploring nature, sustainability and the relation between micro-macro, through various methods of text, body work and stories of food.
Eugene Lee
Eugene has an MFA in Playwriting from the Korean National University for the Arts and her plays have been staged in Seoul and other parts of Korea. She has several play scripts to her credit, most recently, Toilet Goddess. Eugene has also won awards for her music compositions.
Ulla Lenze
Ulla Lenze, born in Mönchengladbach in 1973, studied music and philosophy in Cologne. In 2003 her debut novel Schwester und Bruder (Sister and Brother) was published and awarded the Ernst-Willner-Prize at the Klagenfurt Bachmann competition, the Jürgen Ponto Prize for the best debut novel and the Rolf-Dieter-Brinkmann-Scholarship of Cologne. Her second novel Archanu was released by Ammann Verlag in 2008. In 2010 she was writer-in-residence for nine months at the Goethe Institut Mumbai. Today she lives as a freelance author in Berlin. Her new novel Der kleine Rest des Todes (What little remains of Death) was highly acclaimed and selected on the SWR Bestenliste in May 2012.
Madhulika Liddle
Madhulika Liddle is an Indian who worked in hospitality, advertising and instructional design before deciding to devote all her energies to writing in English. Over the years, several of her short stories have been published in anthologies or have won awards. Her story A Morning Swim, about an eight-year old orphan who dives into the Yamuna to collect coins in order to make ends meet, won the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association’s Short Story Competition in 2003. Madhulika lives in New Delhi, India, and spends her spare time reading (mainly historical detective fiction), watching old cinema, and — whenever possible — traveling.
Douna Loup
Douna’s first book, Mopaya, was based on interviews with Gabriel Nganga Nseka an immigrant from Congo. In September 2010, Douna published her first novel, L’embrasure (Mercure de France), and it received several literary prizes including the Prix Schiller Découverte, Prix Thyde Monnier de la SGDL, Prix Michel-Dentan, Prix René Fallet et Prix Léopold Léonard Senghor.
Henriette Lund
Henriette Lund lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has published a collection of poems and has another one ready for release. She is currently working on a novel. She has a master’s degree in language and history from Roskilde University, Denmark.
Carlos Eduardo de Magalhaes
Carlos was born in the city of Sao Paulo. He is author of eight books, among them: Cama de pregos (Bed of nails, Grua, stories, 2009) Pitanga (Grua, novel, 2008), Dora (Atelie Editorial, novel, 2005), O primeiro inimigo (The first enemy, Atelie Editorial, novel, 2005) and Os jacares (The alligators, Cosac&Naify, novel, 2001), Mera Fotografia (Just a picture, Rocco, novel, 1998). He is also the co-writer of the screenplay of the film “Corpos Celestes”, and author of short stories and articles published in anthologies and magazines. Since 2007, Magalhaes is the editor of a new Brazilian publishing called Grua (www.grualivros.com.br). He lives with his wife and two daughters in Sao Paulo.
Amrita Mahale
Amrita Mahale was trained as an aerospace engineer at IIT Bombay and Stanford University. She spent a decade working in strategy and operations roles in technology startups before switching, in what she hopes is the last of her zigzags, to writing fiction. Her writing has appeared in Brown Paper Bag and Himal Southasian. She is currently working on her first novel, Common Ground.
Maria Carolina Maia
Maria Carolina Maia was born in 1979, in São Paulo, the biggest city of Brazil, where she lives today. She works daily as a journalist, writing and editing texts to VEJA magazine’s website (www.veja.com), and as a writer in her free time. Joining a residence is a great way, for her, to know other writers and experiences and to work harder in a new book. Her first book, her only by now, is Ciranda de Nós. The book won the Nascente prize, which belongs to USP (University of São Paulo), and was nominated to Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura, one of the most important in Brazil.
