Abhay K

Abhay K. is author of several poetry collections including Celestial (Mapin India, 2023), Stray Poems (Poetrywala, 2022), Monsoon (Sahitya Akademi,New Delhi, 2022), The Magic of Madagascar(L’Harmattan Paris, 2021), The Alphabets of Latin America(Bloomsbury India, 2020), and the editor of The Book of Bihari Literature (HarperCollins India, 2022), The Bloomsbury Anthology of Great Indian Poems, CAPITALS, New Brazilian Poems and The Bloomsbury Book of Great Indian Love Poems. His poems have appeared in over 100 literary magazines including Poetry Salzburg Review, Asia Literary Review among others. His 'Earth Anthem' has been translated into over 150 languages. He received the SAARC Literary Award 2013 and was invited to record his poems at the Library of Congress, Washington DC in 2018. His translation of Kalidasa's Meghaduta (Bloomsbury India, 2021) and Ritusamhara  (Bloomsbury India, 2021) from Sanskrit, have received KLF Poetry Book of the Year Award 2020-21. His translation of the first Magahi novel Fool Bahadur has been published by Penguin India.

His forthcoming book Nalanda will be published by Penguin Random House in 2025.

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