ANIL MENON’s most recent work Half Of What I Say (Bloomsbury, 2015) was shortlisted for the
2016 Hindu Literary Award. Along with Vandana Singh, he co-edited Breaking the Bow (Zubaan Books, 2012), an international anthology of short fiction inspired by the Ramayana.
His debut novel The Beast With Nine Billion Feet (Zubaan Books, India) was shortlisted for
the 2010 Vodafone-Crossword Children's Fiction Award and the 2010 Carl Baxter Society’s
Parallax Prize. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of international magazines
including Albedo One, Interzone, Interfictions, Jaggery Lit Review, Lady Churchill's Rosebud
Wristlet, and Strange Horizons. His stories have been translated into more than a dozen
languages including Chinese, Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Igbo, Korean, and Romanian.
In 2016, he helped found the residential Dum Pukht Writers Workshop, held annually at the
Adishakti Theatre Complex in Pondicherry. He is currently working on a collection of short
fiction. He splits his time between India and the USA and can be reached at
[email protected].
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