Prakash Kona Reddy (born 1967) is an Indian

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Hyderabad, India Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much ...

. He was a professor of English literature at The English and Foreign Languages University (Hyderabad campus). He writes in English, and is the author of nine books to date.

Bibliography

*''Conjurer of Nights'' oetry; 2012 Waterloo Press*''Nunc Stans'' reative Non-fiction: 2009, CROSSING CHAOS enigmatic ink, Ontario, Canada* ''How I Invented Myself as 'Prakash Kona oetry; 2008 Monsoon Editions, Calicut, India* ''Words on Lips of a Stranger'' (as Kona Prakash Reddy) Writers Workshop Calcutta">Writers Workshop (publisher)">Writers Workshop Calcutta*''Pearls of an Unstrung Necklace'' iction: 2005, Fugue State Press, New York">Fugue State Press">iction: 2005, Fugue State Press, New York* ''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] * ''You and Other Poems'' (as Kona Prakash Reddy) [Poetry; 1997, Writers Workshop (publisher), Writers Workshop Calcutta * ''Poems for Her'' (as Kona Prakash Reddy) oetry; 1992, Writers Workshop (publisher), 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 (poet), Alan Morrison.http://www.therecusant.org.uk The Recusant eZine

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.

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