Aruni Kashyap
@arunikashyap.bsky.social
Director of Creative Writing Program, Assoc Prof, University of Georgia l Translator of five books l Harvard Radcliffe Fellow l NEA Fellow l How to Date a Fanatic (Harper Via 2026) www.arunikashyap.com l 🏳️🌈 He/Him l https://www.instagram.com/arunikashyap/
Very happy to publish a short essay in the new issue of Granta 173, focusing on Indian Literature. I wrote about storytelling aesthetics in Assamese literature or in the literature written in the Indian languages. Excited to be part of this issue!
October 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Very happy to publish a short essay in the new issue of Granta 173, focusing on Indian Literature. I wrote about storytelling aesthetics in Assamese literature or in the literature written in the Indian languages. Excited to be part of this issue!
July 2026, from Harper Via
October 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
July 2026, from Harper Via
Decatur Book Festival Keynote: Decatur Book Festival Keynote: So excited to be part of this event tomorrow! If you are in Atlanta, please join us!
October 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Decatur Book Festival Keynote: Decatur Book Festival Keynote: So excited to be part of this event tomorrow! If you are in Atlanta, please join us!
What an honor to be part of this mammoth book of Indian short stories edited by A. J. Thomas and published by Aleph Book Company! I have three entries here : my short story “For the Greater Common Good”, which is about a traditional healer’s family in Assam set against armed insurgency; and two
August 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
What an honor to be part of this mammoth book of Indian short stories edited by A. J. Thomas and published by Aleph Book Company! I have three entries here : my short story “For the Greater Common Good”, which is about a traditional healer’s family in Assam set against armed insurgency; and two
Penguin’s new anthology of stories from Northeast India! My story “Skylark Girl” from the collection THE WAY YOU WANT TO BE LOVED is included here along with two other short stories that I translated : Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi’s “The Smell of Bamboo Blossoms” & Anuradha Sarma Pujari’s “No Man’s Land.”
August 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Penguin’s new anthology of stories from Northeast India! My story “Skylark Girl” from the collection THE WAY YOU WANT TO BE LOVED is included here along with two other short stories that I translated : Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi’s “The Smell of Bamboo Blossoms” & Anuradha Sarma Pujari’s “No Man’s Land.”
Speaking in New York at this panel at the Rainbow Lit Fest on May 10th! It is a Saturday! Come ask us questions!
2025 Rainbow Book Fair Panel
Asian Love Stories: Romance, Resistance, and Revolution
Saturday, May 10th, 3.00-4.15 PM
208 W 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 (room tba)
2025 Rainbow Book Fair Panel
Asian Love Stories: Romance, Resistance, and Revolution
Saturday, May 10th, 3.00-4.15 PM
208 W 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 (room tba)
May 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Speaking in New York at this panel at the Rainbow Lit Fest on May 10th! It is a Saturday! Come ask us questions!
2025 Rainbow Book Fair Panel
Asian Love Stories: Romance, Resistance, and Revolution
Saturday, May 10th, 3.00-4.15 PM
208 W 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 (room tba)
2025 Rainbow Book Fair Panel
Asian Love Stories: Romance, Resistance, and Revolution
Saturday, May 10th, 3.00-4.15 PM
208 W 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 (room tba)
Delighted to share my translation of Anuradha Sarma Pujari's story @wwborders.bsky.social
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April 29, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Delighted to share my translation of Anuradha Sarma Pujari's story @wwborders.bsky.social
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I will be speaking at Yale University tomorrow. Please come if you are around! macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/ev...
March 31, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I will be speaking at Yale University tomorrow. Please come if you are around! macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/ev...
Had a wonderful time at The College of William & Mary’s translation festival. We need to know how the rest of the world lives and imagines; can’t do that without translators. US publishing has a 3% problem which means only 3% of titles are translated; and South Asian Lit in translation? 0.66%!
March 25, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Had a wonderful time at The College of William & Mary’s translation festival. We need to know how the rest of the world lives and imagines; can’t do that without translators. US publishing has a 3% problem which means only 3% of titles are translated; and South Asian Lit in translation? 0.66%!
Spent a wonderful day as a Visiting Writer with the writers at the Converse University MFA program in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Lovely to spend time with my friend Geoff Herbach who directs the program!
January 6, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Spent a wonderful day as a Visiting Writer with the writers at the Converse University MFA program in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Lovely to spend time with my friend Geoff Herbach who directs the program!
The mandatory Publishers Marketplace screenshot ~
December 7, 2024 at 12:45 AM
The mandatory Publishers Marketplace screenshot ~
Excited to share the news that my translation of Anuradha Sarma Pujari's "Ten Love Stories and a Novella of Despair" has a publisher: Westland Books will publish this collection & the wildly popular novella "Ejon Ishwarar Sandhanot". Thanks a ton to Mita Kapur for securing the deal!!
December 3, 2024 at 3:28 AM
Excited to share the news that my translation of Anuradha Sarma Pujari's "Ten Love Stories and a Novella of Despair" has a publisher: Westland Books will publish this collection & the wildly popular novella "Ejon Ishwarar Sandhanot". Thanks a ton to Mita Kapur for securing the deal!!
It was such a privilege and honor to have Tracy K. Smith as my interlocutor at my talk today! Thank you, everyone - the colleagues at Radcliffe and friends — for the support and lpge! A full video of the reading and conversation is coming soon!
November 14, 2024 at 3:38 AM
It was such a privilege and honor to have Tracy K. Smith as my interlocutor at my talk today! Thank you, everyone - the colleagues at Radcliffe and friends — for the support and lpge! A full video of the reading and conversation is coming soon!
Dear New Haven friends, I will be reading from my new book at Yale University on April 1. Please mark the date!
October 27, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Dear New Haven friends, I will be reading from my new book at Yale University on April 1. Please mark the date!
“prose is restrained, expressive, and unflinching, capable of capturing the delicate nuances of human emotion and the brutality of injustice.” buff.ly/4e0siTV
October 26, 2024 at 9:07 PM
“prose is restrained, expressive, and unflinching, capable of capturing the delicate nuances of human emotion and the brutality of injustice.” buff.ly/4e0siTV
My wonderful people showed up at tej City University of New York book reading! Thank you!
October 26, 2024 at 9:03 PM
My wonderful people showed up at tej City University of New York book reading! Thank you!
Photos from the Singapore Literature Festival 2024, New York!
October 26, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Photos from the Singapore Literature Festival 2024, New York!
I am thrilled to share the news that my next novel, HOW TO DATE A FANATIC, will be published by HarperVia Books in 2026!! A huge thank you to my amazing and relentless literary agent, Lucy Cleland, who believed in this book long before I wrote the last chapter.
October 3, 2024 at 1:35 PM
I am thrilled to share the news that my next novel, HOW TO DATE A FANATIC, will be published by HarperVia Books in 2026!! A huge thank you to my amazing and relentless literary agent, Lucy Cleland, who believed in this book long before I wrote the last chapter.
Beautiful Cambridge ~
September 8, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Beautiful Cambridge ~
June 2, 2024 at 10:11 AM
I am so happy to share the news that my translation of Anuradha Sarma Pujari’s fiction is on the shortlist for the Armory Square Prize, awarded by Armory Square Ventures, New York. than her novels!
June 2, 2024 at 10:10 AM
I am so happy to share the news that my translation of Anuradha Sarma Pujari’s fiction is on the shortlist for the Armory Square Prize, awarded by Armory Square Ventures, New York. than her novels!
If you are in or around Ithaca, see you at Cornell University this Friday! events.cornell.edu/event/14th_a...
April 10, 2024 at 2:08 PM
If you are in or around Ithaca, see you at Cornell University this Friday! events.cornell.edu/event/14th_a...
In the popular depictions of #India circulating in the United States, we rarely see the stories that the nation’s jingoistic governments have shoved under the carpet, stories of massive human rights violations committed by the Indian state in the country’s margins www.awpwriter.org/awp_conferen...
February 3, 2024 at 2:59 AM
In the popular depictions of #India circulating in the United States, we rarely see the stories that the nation’s jingoistic governments have shoved under the carpet, stories of massive human rights violations committed by the Indian state in the country’s margins www.awpwriter.org/awp_conferen...
Just received contributor copies of Prairie Schooner’s latest issue! Thanks for publishing my work!
January 30, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Just received contributor copies of Prairie Schooner’s latest issue! Thanks for publishing my work!