Abhay K.

Abhay K. is the author of the bestseller Nalanda: How It Changed the World and several poetry collections. He is the editor of The Book of Bihari Literature, The Bloomsbury Book of Great Indian Love Poems, Capitals, New Brazilian Poems and The Bloomsbury Anthology of Great Indian Poems. His poems have appeared in over a hundred literary magazines, including Poetry Salzburg Review and Asia Literary Review. His ‘Earth Anthem’ has been translated into over 160 languages. He received the SAARC Literary Award (2013) and was invited to record his poems at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., in 2018. His translations of Kalidasa’s Meghaduta and Ritusamhara from Sanskrit won him the KLF Poetry Book of the Year Award (2020–21). He has also translated the Magahi novel Fool Bahadur and Hanuman Chalisa. His paintings on the Buddhist philosophy of ‘Shunyata’ have been exhibited at the National Museum, New Delhi, Bihar Museum, Patna and Salarjung Museum, Hyderabad.