Prakash Kona

Prakash Kona Reddy (born 1967) is an Indian novelist, essayist, poet and theorist who lives in Hyderabad, India. He was a professor of English literature at The English and Foreign Languages University (Hyderabad campus).

Prakash Kona Reddy
Born	(1967-07-14) July 14, 1967 (age 58) Hyderabad, India
Alma mater	University of Mississippi University of Hyderabad Osmania University
Genre	Marxism, a history of Anarchism, Avant-garde poetry, Third World Resistance writing, polemical cinema
Notable works	Conjurer of nights
Website
efluniversity.ac.in/view_profile.php?e=II0104

He writes in English, and is the author of nine books to date.

Bibliography

• Conjurer of Nights [Poetry; 2012 Waterloo Press]^[1]
• Nunc Stans [Creative Non-fiction: 2009, CROSSING CHAOS enigmatic ink, Ontario, Canada]
• How I Invented Myself as 'Prakash Kona' [Poetry; 2008 Monsoon Editions, Calicut, India]
• Words on Lips of a Stranger (as Kona Prakash Reddy) [Poetry; 2005, Writers Workshop Calcutta]
• Pearls of an Unstrung Necklace [Fiction: 2005, Fugue State Press, New York]^[2]
• Literary Criticism: A Study of Pluralism (Wittgenstein, Chomsky and Derrida) [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]^[3]
• You and Other Poems (as Kona Prakash Reddy) [Poetry; 1997, Writers Workshop Calcutta
• Poems for Her (as Kona Prakash Reddy) [Poetry; 1992, Writers Workshop Calcutta

Other works, including essays^[4][5] 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.^[6]

Themes

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.