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Winner of the Shakti Bhatt Prize 2024, Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih, born in Sohra, Meghalaya, writes poetry, drama and fiction in Khasi and English. His latest works include The Distaste of the Earth (longlisted for the JCB Prize 2024), the critically acclaimed epic-length novel Funeral Nights (published in the UK and the US in 2024), The Yearning of Seeds: Poems, Time’s Barter: Haiku and Senryu and Around the Hearth: Khasi Legends. He is the co-editor of Late-Blooming Cherries: Haiku Poetry from India (India’s first English-language haiku poetry anthology) and Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from North-East India.
He has published poems and stories in Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, Wasafiri, New Welsh Review, PEN International, Literary Review, The Oxford Anthology of Writings from North-East India, The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry, The Penguin Book of Indian Poets, The Indian Quarterly, Down to Earth, The Hindu Business Line, Pilgrim’s India, Day’s End Stories and more. His other awards include the Northeast Poetry Award (2004), the Veer Shankar Shah–Raghunath Shah National Award (2008), a Tagore Fellowship (2018), the Bangalore Review June Jazz Award (2021), the Sparrow Literary Award (2022) and Meghalaya’s Tribal Achievers’ Award (2024). He teaches literature at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong.

Arunava Sinha (Translator)
Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction from Bangladesh and India into English. He also translates fiction from English into Bengali. Over eighty of his translations have been published so far in India, the UK and the USA. He teaches creative writing at Ashoka University, where he is also the co-director of the Ashoka Centre for Translation, and is the Books Editor at Scroll.in.

Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay wrote novels, short stories, travelogues and detailed diaries, all in Bengali. His literary career began in 1921 and his first novel, Pather Panchali, was recognized as a landmark in Bengali fiction soon after its publication. Its sequel Aparajito was published in 1931. His other important writings include Meghamallar, Mauriphul, Aranyak, Adarsh Hindu Hotel, Smritir Rekha, Devayan, Hiramanik Jvale, Utkarna, He Aranya Katha Kao, Ichhamati and the posthumously published Asani Sanket. Bandopadhyay also wrote for children, and the novel Chander Pahar, an adventure story set in Africa, is considered a classic.

Anjali Banerjee was born in India, raised in Canada and California, and holds degrees in anthropology and psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. Anjali’s Pushcart Prize-nominated short stories have appeared in several literary journals and an anthology, and she has been a contributing writer for three regional history books. She lives in Washington State, USA, with her husband, three crazy cats and a rabbit named Friday. Anjali’s first novel for children, Maya Running, was published in 2005. Simon & Schuster published her first two novels for adults, Imaginary Men (2005) and Invisible Lives (2006). Learn more about Anjali on her website: www.anjalibanerjee.com