Aruni Kashyap is the author of How to Date a Fanatic, The Way You Want To Be Loved, and The House With a Thousand Stories. Along with editing a collection of stories called How to Tell the Story of an Insurgency, he is the translator of four novels from Assamese to English. A 2024 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, he is also the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Faculty Research Grants in the Humanities and Arts Program, the Arts Lab Faculty Fellowship, and the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing to the University of Edinburgh, his poetry collection, There is No Good Time for Bad News, was nominated for the 58th Georgia Author of the Year Awards 2022, a finalist for the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize, and the Four Way Books Levis Award in Poetry.
His translations, which have been shortlisted for the 2023 and 2024 Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation and VOW Book Awards 2024, include The Smell of Bamboo Blossoms by Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi (Modern Library 2027), The Bronze Sword of Tengphakhri Tehsildar by Indira Goswami (Zubaan 2013), My Poems Are Not for Your Ad Campaign by Anuradha Sarma Pujari (Penguin 2023), An Illuminated Valley by Dipak Kumar Barkakaty (Penguin 2027), and Ten Love Stories and a Story of Despair (Westland 2027).
He has served as a visiting writer at Lander University, Minnesota State University, Converse University, The College of William & Mary, Valdosta State University, Dibrugarh University, Assam Don Bosco University, and delivered the Tagore Lecture in Modern Indian Literature at Cornell University. His short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Granta, The Boston Review, Electric Literature, Catapult, Bitch Media, The Kenyon Review, The LitHub, The Oxford Anthology of Writings from the Northeast, The New York Times, The Guardian UK, and others. He also writes in Assamese and is the author of a novel, Noikhon Etia Duroit, and three novellas. He is an Associate Professor of English & Creative Writing and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia, Athens.
Email: aruni.kashyap@uga.edu
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14th Annual Tagore Lecture on Modern Indian Literature, by Aruni Kashyap, Cornell University
Let's Talk with Nasreen Habib | Aruni Kashyap | Assamese Author | The Assam Tribune
“Where the Sun Rises: Under the Shadow of the Assam-India Conflict”, Princeton University
A presentation from 2024–2025 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow Aruni Kashyap, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
EVENTS :
October 3, 2025.
Keynote, Decatur Book Festival, Georgia, with Saeed Jones, Victoria Chang, & Tiana Clark
April 1, 2025
MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
March 17 - 20, 2025
The College of William & Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia
January 3, 2025
Converse University
Spartanburg, South Carolina
September 29, 2024
Brooklyn Book Festival
Brooklyn, NY
Oct 1, 2024
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
New York
October 18, 2024
The Way You Want to Be Loved
Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Oct 19 & 20 2024
Singapore Literature Festival
April 12, 2024,
The Rabindranath Tagore Lecture in Modern Indian Literature, 2024
South Asia Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
April 05, 2024
Keynote Speaker, Nexus24
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
February 2024
AWP24
Yes We Exist, America: Queer South Asian Stories & Why They Matter
Indian Writers Challenge State Violence
Kansas City, Missouri
November 18, 2023
Translating Borderlands: Northwestern UniversityEvanston, Illinois
October 26, 2023
Good Thunder Reading Series Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minnesota
Sept 15 & 16, 2023
JLF Houston 2023
Texas
February 23 & 24th, 2023
Visiting Writer, Department of English, Valdosta State University,
Valdosta, Georgia
February 6th, 2023
Visiting Writer, Department of English,
Lander University,
Greenwood, South Carolina.
ASIAN AMERICAN / ASIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE - CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
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