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.
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.
Aditi Rao
Aditi has published essays with InfochangeIndia, India Untravelled, and other online publications, and poems in the Boiler Journal, Muse India, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, qarrtsiluni, and Four Quarters Magazine. Her story, “Face to Face: Transforming Conflict in South Asia” was featured in People Building Peace 2.0, published by the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, and “I can bear it” was featured in Moments that Speak: Images and Stories of Connection, published by the Earth Charter Initiative. Aditi has twice been longlisted for the TFA Creative Writing in English award. She was one of the winners of the 2012 “Encountering Poetry” contest organized by Cha, and the winner of the 2011 Srinivas Rayaprol Prize for Poetry.
Louise Ardenfelt Ravnild
Louise is a Copenhagen-based translator working mainly from English into Danish. Her works include both fiction and non-fiction and range from serial killers, zookeepers’ wives, female popes and burnt-out baseball players over bakers and dieters to brain scientists and businesspeople. She holds a Master’s degree in Classical Indian Philology and hopes that it might actually prove useful some day.
Prema Revathi
Prema Revathi is a poet, journalist, theatre person, translator and activist who runs a school for children from nomadic tribal communities in a coastal village in Tamil Nadu. She writes on development and gender and is presently writing a memoir about the school she started in the aftermath of the Asian Tsunami in 2004. She also translates fiction from English to Tamil.
Nicholas Rixon
Nicholas Rixon is an Anglo-Indian writer whose fiction and essays have appeared in Catapult, The Indian Quarterly, Scroll.in, The Assam Tribune, The Statesman, and A Case of Indian Marvels: Dazzling Stories from the Country’s Finest New Writers.
Anita Roy
Anita Roy has worked in publishing in both India and the UK for over 25 years. She set up and runs the Young Zubaan imprint of Zubaan books. She has completed a children’s novel, and is working on short stories for young adults.
