Nandalal Majumdar
(Bangla: Docu-fiction) Nandalal is a script writer and performance artist. He has won the prestigious ‘Bengal Tele Academy Award’ in 2019. He has also published a collection of poetry and a book of short stories. He is the founder of the Shadanga Art Society, an interdisciplinary arts organization dedicated to fostering dialogue between diverse artistic expressions.
Ishita Basu Mallik
Ishita writes and draws. She received the TFA Award for Creative Writing in 2011. Some of her texts have appeared in Pyrta, Global Comment, Asian Cha, Stone Telling, DecomP and the Northeast Review. A themed first collection of poems is working on her.
Francesca Marciano
Francesca is the author of three novels published in the US by Knopf, all of which were written in English. She has also written several film scripts, mostly for the Italian cinema. She uses both languages, Italian and English, in her writing, although English is the language she uses when writing fiction.
Sharanya Manivannan
Sharanya Manivannan was born in India in 1985 and grew up elsewhere. As a spoken word artist, she has performed extensively since 2001, at venues including an abandoned pier, a cemetery, and the 11th century Borobudur Temple. Her first full-length book of poems, published October 2008, is Witchcraft. She is working on a novel, Constellation of Scars.
Majid Maqbool
Majid Maqbool is a young writer, journalist and editor based in Kashmir. Besides Kashmir based publications, his writings have appeared in international publications including Aljazeera English, Warscapes magazine, Dispatches International, The Platform, as well as several Indian and Pakistani publications including OPEN Magazine, Hard News magazine, Kindle magazine, Dawn and Newsline magazine. Majid is at work on his first book that puts together his published and unpublished stories, essays and creative nonfiction writings on Kashmir.
Manimala Mathialagan
Manimala writes in Tamil. She has received various local and international awards for her work. Her books Theathannee and Azhiperukku, were shortlisted for the 2022 and 2024 Singapore Literature Prize Awards, respectively. The ‘Ananda Bhavan Mu.Ku.Ramachandra Book Prize for 2022’ was awarded to her short story collection, ‘Ival’. She also writes for children and young adults.
Tashan Mehta
Tashan Mehta completed her MPhil in Literature from the University of Cambridge before returning to Mumbai to work as a freelance writer. Her short stories have appeared in magazines such as Out of Print and Notes. She has just finished her first novel, In Between, and is currently working on her second.
Joan Michelson
Joan won first prize in the Bristol Poetry Competition, UK, first prize in the Torriano Competition UK, and she was awarded the Hamish Canham Prize from the Poetry Society of England. Her writing has been selected for both British Council and Arts Council anthologies of New Writing. Her poems have been published in a variety of literary magazine. She has published a full collection, Toward the Heliopause, and a chapbook, Bloomvale Home. Originally from New England, she lives England.
Rohini Mohan
Rohini Mohan is a journalist who has written on human rights, politics and development for Tehelka, The Caravan, Outlook, The Hindu, and The New York Times. She has won prestigious recognition for her work, including the Charles Wallace Fellowship 2013, London; the ICRC Humanitarian Reporting Award 2012, New Delhi; the Sanskriti-Prabha Dutt Fellowship 2012, New Delhi; and the South Asian Journalists’ Association award 2011, New York. She has an MA in Political Journalism from Columbia University, New York. Mohan’s first book is a non-fiction narrative about three people in postwar Sri Lanka, published by Verso UK. She is based in Bangalore.
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.
Moupia Mukherjee
(English/Hindi/Bangla: Translation, Fiction) Moupia is a writer, translator and documentary filmmaker. Her work has been broadcast and published in various Bangla magazines and journals. Her films have been screened at festivals in India and South Asia.
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.
Estherbaby Vijith Nandakumar
(Tamil: Poetry) Esther has published three collections of poetry and is a freelance journalist. She is currently working on a collection of essays and directing her first documentary film on displaced workers in Colombo.
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.
