Prakash Kona

Who is Prakash Kona?

Prakash Kona is an Indian novelist, essayist, poet and theorist who lives in Hyderabad, India. He writes in English, and is the author of the following books to date:

⁕how i invented myself as "prakash kona" [Poetry: 2008, Monsoon Editions, Calicut, India]

⁕Nunc Stans [Creative Non-fiction: 2009, CROSSING CHAOS enigmatic ink, Ontario, Canada]

⁕Words on Lips of a Stranger [2005, Writers Workshop, Calcutta]

⁕Pearls of an Unstrung Necklace [Fiction: 2005, Fugue State Press, New York]

⁕Literary Criticism: A Study of Pluralism [Theory: 2004, Wisdom House Publications, Leeds, England]

⁕Streets that Smell of Dying Roses [Fiction: 2003, Fugue State Press, New York; also Yeti Books, Calicut, India]

⁕Poems for Her * [Poetry: 1999, Writers Workshop, Calcutta]

⁕You and Other Poems * [Poetry: 1997, Writers Workshop, Calcutta]

Other works, including essays and fictional vignettes, are published widely on the Internet.

In August 2010 Kona contributed to an eBook collection of political poems entitled Emergency Verse - Poetry in Defence of the Welfare State edited by Alan Morrison

His fiction is highly unusual, an experimental combination of free-floating emotion and political theory that can depict, for example, a city or a love relationship in an ambiguous, flowing, non-concrete and yet highly personal and heartfelt manner.